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Indian Government asks Operators to ban Chinese and Korean Handsets without IMEI

on December 24, 2008 – 12:11 am7 Comments

The DOT of Department of Telecom has asked all Operators to ban handsets without a legitimate IMEI number on January 6th.

This directive comes as a fight against terror as these handsets are being used by terrorists as they do not have an IMEI number in them.There are as many as 25 million unbranded handsets imported from China and Korea that are believed to be on the knife’s edge.

They have asked operators to block mobiles with fake IMEI numbers like all zeroes .

The Indian Government has postponed the previous deadline for Operators from 6th January 2009 to March 31 2009.

So be careful when purchasing these Chinese or other imported handsets ..

You might even be questioned by the authorities .

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A team of mobile geeks

  • Shrikanth nagarajan

    Hey anant!!!

  • Raghava

    please ban all the china mobile it is a big effect to all standard mobile companies and easy to all criminals to do there criminial activities i request to Government to ban this products.

  • Prasath

    First of all government should ban import and sells of china mobiles in Indian markets. Many shops are still selling those mobiles. Government should take necessary actions to stop the sells. So many innocent people especially from rural areas are not aware of this ban and still purchasing new china mobiles. The government and operators should desiminate information about this ban to the public as early as possible.

  • Amit

    Sir ..

    I am buy new
    China mobile to day shop owner told me don’t worry about goverment ban
    That plan canot
    Activate . It is true or falus
    So pl’s help me
    What can i do .?
    – AMIT -

  • Bismillah

    In those china and korean mobiles. If one can’t able to use GPRS then these china and korean mobiles are going to be banned on 3rd week of march 2009. Definitely they are going to ban it. Even my friend is running a mobile shop he bought korean mobiles for 4 lakhs. That too 4 months before.

    So far he had sold only 50000 rupees mobiles. He is very much worried about the fact. He too agree with the ban. So brothers and sisters please don’t waste your money in buying those mobiles hereafter.

  • hafeez

    today june 23 , 2009 .. alll china mobiles are working fine … and my friend started a chinees mobile shop [:)]

  • NPA

    CHINEESE MOBILE SHOULD BAN IN INDIA.AND ALSO THE MOBILE COMPANIES LIKE SPICE,KARBON AND LAVA