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Can the GSM Network be disabled for reasons of national security?

April 26, 2017disabled GSM National Network reasons security

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Can the GSM Network be disabled for reasons of national security?

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Yes. This is possible, but is extremely rare and would only happen in a situation of great national emergency. Such an operation can be selective in the devices which are not allowed to operate on a network for a particular area, at a particular time.