Well, I've had my cell blocked, for over a year. Never lost PP, or had an issue, with them, or any data being displayed.
Your service dude has no way of knowing, unless he's done diagnostics, on the cell and connected the correct load, on the antenna port, to halt comms. Period.
Not to start a pissing match but, mine is real world experience. His is pure conjecture.
See below.
Note, zero cell comms. PP functioning flawlessly.
There is no crosstalk, except for data upstream comms, to big brother. I know this, because push any button and I get a nag screen, to have the cell checked, at the dealer. It wouldn't show, if it weren't trying to communicate, via cel.
Hope this clears it up.
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