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re Crooks-associated phone pings at Gallery Place in D.C.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/phone-associated-with-would-be-assassin-pinged-near-fbi-dc-offices-in-2023-report-says
https://x.com/OversightPR/status/1815446057829974267
Ping location in SW corner of the complex is consistent with either ground-floor Clyde's restaurant or facilities on another floor, such as the large vacant office space currently for lease. (Is that the old FBI office, or something else? Anon doesn't know.)
Could the pings distinguish those two possibilities? Maybe the number of pings tells us something.
Cell Phone Pinging Cell Towers: How Often and When?
August 31, 2022
"A phone will ping when it gets close to a new tower, when you change the connection status and when it needs to establish a connection (such as for a phone call).
If left completely passive and stationary, most phones send a handful of pings each day.
That said, there is no official convention for this, and every carrier makes its own rules."
https://techwithtech.com/cell-phone-pinging-cell-towers-how-often-when/
Check that against the Oversight claim:
"According to Oversight investigators, a phone associated with Crooks’ work address at a nursing home in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, traveled to the Gallery Place complex in downtown Washington, D.C., on June 26, 2023.
The phone 'pinged' seven or eight times from that location the same day."
Huh.
So would 7+ pings be more consistent with a phone sitting in Clyde's restaurant during a meal, or a phone sitting in an office for some hours? Anon guesses the latter, generally. But since each carrier has its own ping rules, you'd want to know that particular phone's carrier to try for a more informed guess. Well, to start, could anons maybe try to findpublished ping rules for major carriers?