Tracing Packet Switch (PS) Users

Investigations into mobile activity tend largely to concentrate on recovering data from the user handset, mast (tower) data and call records. The core network (CN) is less well understood and therefore picking through a GSM/3GPP standard can often assist in understanding the identity and form of tarried/empheral data surviving in a network. The standard to be used for this discussion is:

3GPP TS

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