Clamp-down on Chinese handsets over security issues
Terrorists have been increasingly using Chinese mobile handsets, which carry no IMEI or ESN numbers. All the service providers have been told to set up a Equipment Identity Registry so that unmonitored calls are rejected.
It was also stated that the Department of Telecommunications has asked all the service providers to set up a Equipment Identity Registry so that calls by GSM handsets without IMEI numbers and from CDMA handsets without Electronic Serial Number (ESN) are rejected.
The government, however, informed that there was no proposal of regulating the manufacture and sale of mobile phones. The government has been forced to take this step after it was found that terrorists were increasingly using the Chinese mobile handsets, which carry no IMEI or ESN numbers. A large number of mobile phones originating from China do not carry the identity numbers.
An IMEI is a unique 15-digit code that identifies each mobile and is used to track stolen handsets. Unauthorised calls can also be blocked by the operators if these are illegal by blocking the IMEI code.
.Connection between terror attacks and Chinese handsets is lot of crap. That people would not go for 'cheap' Chinese phones had they been 'educated' about IMEI# is another crap! It's like saying that most computers in India run on fake Windows just because the users didn't know about licencing. In fact, monstrous amounts are EXTORTED in taxes and duties in the guise of security when a handset is provided 'registration'. This is several times more than the profit margin in producing it. The money goes towards maintaining a bloated dysfunctional officialdom steeped in corruption. What contribution government of India has made in return to mobile communications is anyone's knowledge.
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