New Delhi: The Government of India has decided to ban mobile phones with fake or duplicate IMEI numbers.
Notify that International Mobile Equipment Identity or IMEI number functions as the concerned handset’s unique ID, just like your fingerprint.
But dealers have managed to find a loophole in a law that already exists prohibiting the aforementioned sort of devices from being sold in the country.
An order against importing phones with ’00..00′ IMEI numbers, without any such identification or with fake IDs, was passed previously. This meant that handsets with duplicate or cloned IMEI numbers were technically not part of the ban.
The new prohibition curbs even such devices from being offered in the market.
Pankaj Mohindroo of the Indian Cellular Association’s talked about any type of crackdown in fake IMEI or grey market being welcome.
Notify that handsets with duplicate or fake IMEI numbers pose a threat to national security since they can’t be tracked.
This is the only reason behind the decision of the Indian government to included GSM mobiles with cloned or fake IMEI and CDMA phones with duplicate or false ESN (Electronic Serial Number)/MEID (Mobile Equipment Identifier) in the list of items which are banned from being imported into the nation.
Bureau Report
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