>In this case, it would be transmitted only when a SIM is turned on in a new device for the first time. But this is seemingly not what happened in the case at

>In this case, it would be transmitted only when a SIM is turned on in a new device for the first time. But this is seemingly not what happened in the case at hand. >In this particular case, the phone had recently downloaded an update that included new baseband firmware. That was almost certainly the trigger for this message. So, every time the baseband firmware is updated, likely millions of devices need to send that SMS to that single server, unlesss the updates are deployed somehow sequentially. And if these firmware updates happen not very often, which probabilities were that just after such an update the person (suspected of distracted driving) crashed with the car? Like 0.00000000001 or very, very, very rare chance.