New Delhi: People will have the ability to block and observe 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 stated.
Technology growth physique Centre for Department of (*17*) (CDoT) has been working the pilot of the CEIR system in a few 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, informed PTI.
“CEIR system is scheduled for pan-India launch on May 17,” the official stated.
When contacted, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Project Board at CDoT Rajkumar Upadhyay didn’t verify the date however confirmed that the know-how is prepared 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 stated. CDoT has been in a position so as to add options to examine using cloned cell phones throughout all telecom networks.
The authorities has made it obligatory to reveal the IMEI — a 15-digit distinctive numeric identifier — of cellular gadgets earlier than their sale in India. The cellular networks may have entry to the checklist of accredited IMEI numbers which can examine the entry of any unauthorised cell phones on their community.
Telecom operators and the CEIR system may have visibility into the IMEI variety of the system and the cellular quantity linked to it, and the data is being utilized in some states to trace your misplaced or stolen mobiles by way of CEIR.
“One of the common practices is that miscreants change IMEI number of stolen mobile phones which prevents tracking and blocking of such handsets. It was a national security issue. The CEIR will be able to block any cloned mobile phones on the network with the help of various databases,” Upadhyay stated.
The primary objective of CEIR is to ease reporting of stolen and misplaced mobiles and block using mobiles everywhere in the nation. This will discourage the theft of cell phones, allow the tracing of the stolen and misplaced mobiles to the police, detection of cloned or counterfeit mobiles, prohibit using such cloned mobiles, in addition to defend the curiosity of the customers by making them conscious of the data associated to faux and cloned cell phones.
Recently, Karnataka Police recovered and handed over greater than 2,500 misplaced cell phones to their homeowners utilizing the CEIR system. Apple already has a system to trace misplaced cell phones with the assistance of Apple ID however main points have been round Android cell phones.
With the brand new system in place, will probably be futile to make use of stolen cell 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.
