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Radio here refers to your mobile (non-wifi) wireless connection, though technically, Wi-Fi is also radio and can be used for triangulation purposes by access points. Technically speaking, any communications method that uses electromagnetic waves is radio, regardless of modulation and data encoding.
The IMEI is how the cell tower differentiates the individual network participants. It can be compared to a MAC address.
I can use WIFI with Airplane mode, is my IMEI being transferred to any place in this situation?
Can you elaborate how it is compared with MAC? What might happen to how cell tower compares IMEI and MAC when I spoof MAC?
No
A cell tower doesn't care about your MAC. In fact you can have devices without a MAC in a mobile network (like dumbphones). However, a malicious entity might be able to correlate these two with a setup where he controls both cellular and Wi-Fi equipment.
thanks a lot!