The authorities has made it necessary to disclose IMEI — a 15-digit distinctive numeric identifier — of cellular gadgets earlier than their sale in India. (Credits: Reuters)
Telecom operators and CEIR system may have visibility into IMEI variety of the machine and cellular quantity linked to it, and the knowledge is being utilized in some states to monitor your misplaced or stolen mobiles by means of CEIR
People will likely be ready to block and monitor their misplaced or stolen cell phones throughout India with the rollout of a monitoring system by the federal government this week, a senior authorities official mentioned.
Technology growth physique Centre for Department of Telematics (CDoT) has been working the pilot of the CEIR system in a number of the telecom circles, together with Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and North East area, and the system is now prepared for pan-India deployment, a DoT official, who didn’t want to be recognized, instructed PTI.
“CEIR system is scheduled for pan-India launch on May 17,” the official said.
When contacted, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Project Board at CDoT Rajkumar Upadhyay did not confirm the date but confirmed that the technology is ready for pan-India deployment.
“The system is ready and now it will be deployed across India in this quarter. This will enable people to block and track their lost mobile phones,” Upadhyay mentioned.
CDoT has been ready to add options to verify the usage of cloned cell phones throughout all telecom networks.
The authorities has made it necessary to disclose IMEI — a 15-digit distinctive numeric identifier — of cellular gadgets earlier than their sale in India.
The cellular networks may have entry to the record of accredited IMEI numbers which is able to verify the entry of any unauthorised cell phones on their community.
Telecom operators and CEIR system may have visibility into IMEI variety of the machine and cellular quantity linked to it, and the knowledge is being utilized in some states to monitor your misplaced or stolen mobiles by means of CEIR.
“One of the frequent practices is that miscreants change IMEI variety of stolen cell phones which prevents monitoring and blocking of such handsets. It was a nationwide safety concern. The CEIR will likely be ready to block any cloned cell phones on the community with the assistance of assorted databases,” Upadhyay said.
The basic purpose of CEIR is to ease reporting of stolen and lost mobiles and block the use of mobiles all over the country. This will discourage the theft of mobile phones, enable the tracing of the stolen and lost mobiles to the police, detection of cloned or counterfeit mobiles, restrict the use of such cloned mobiles, as well as protect the interest of the consumers by making them aware of the information related to fake and cloned mobile phones.
Recently, Karnataka Police recovered and handed over more than 2,500 lost mobile phones to their owners using the CEIR system.
Apple already has a system to track lost mobile phones with the help of Apple ID but major issues have been around Android mobile phones.
With the new system in place, it will be futile to use stolen mobile phones.
“The system has an in-built mechanism which will also check the smuggling of phones and help the government from revenue loss to the exchequer as well,” Upadhyay added.
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