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They found a phone farm.
It's pretty unlikely they were using actual cellphones for this setup.
Why? Not disagreeing, just curious if there's something to base this off of. It's a whole lot of phones, but old phones are still perfectly functional and cheap as dirt in bulk. You can get 100-phone management racks off alibaba for not too much, so while this setup would be damned large, it's for sure not impossible to set up for a dedicated enough actor.
And that said it'd be a pain in the ass. Could you replicate the functionality with a broadband radio and a server, maybe?
There are images in the link; they’re not actual phones.
You don't need phones. They are emulated. Better to call it a SIM farm but phone farm is good enough a term colloquially.