[walrus01]

Re: your last sentence, a stingray rarely if ever offers actual network connectivity, either ss7 or data. Its purpose is just to catch the unique ID numbers from the phone. Whatever you have set into your phone for LTE APN data settings isn't going to work with a random imsi catcher. Such a thing won't have an uplink anyways outside of its command/control functions.

[gruez]

Doesn't that make them really detectable? A deadspot with full signal bars would be really suspicious.

[walrus01]

A phone doesn't stay connected to a stingray, it will get the imsi and then move on to a real site of the phone's carrier.

[pas]

How/why? Could you elaborate? Will the rouge tower drop the phone? Won't the phone try to connect again and again to the tower with the strongest signal?

[et-al]

Thanks! Didn't know that about stingrays.