Fake IMEI China, Korean Mobile Handsets Ban – Is your IMEI Genuine ? Verify now!
By Manoj Govindassamy on 15 November, 2009, 8:21 am
Department of Telecommunications (DoT) brought in a new rule few months back, of banning all mobiles handsets that do not carry the legitimate International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number. Mostly cheap China and Korean Mobiles that sneaked in the Indian Market are either missing IMEI or having fake IMEI number are suppose to face the death by this rule.
IMEI number is a 15-digit code that identifies a mobile and helps prevent use of stolen handsets for making calls by enabling security agencies to track down the specific user. Fake IMEI Chinese Mobile Handsets are cheap, good looking but lack quality and other safety norms. These electronics items easily woo the low end users with their price tags and is always a headache to local made handsets.
As per the ban, telecom operators are asked not to process calls from mobile handsets without IMEI numbers from November 20. Consumers who had purchased such handsets were now likely to face disconnections. This can result in revenue loss to telecom companies as well, so these telcos are sending SMS alerts to those users having Fake IMEI handsets.
You can find the 15-digit IMEI number of your mobile by typing *#06#. To verify if your phone has a genuine IMEI number, you can send a SMS with “IMEI <15-digit number>” to 53232. If the reply states that the number is not genuine, then you can implant a genuine IMEI number under the GII programme by contacting your mobile operator. The cost for the implanting would be Rs. 199 per phone. So, get it done immediately.
China Mobiles – Available In Chennai
Govt. of India cannot ban any China imported product (such as mobiles, electronics, furniture… etc) as it has to comply WTO norms, recently Govt. of India had to lift the China Toys ban due to WTO pressure. But, making these items follow safety and quality norms are the only way to keep them in check. Clever isn’t it ?
That is well known that money makes us disembarrass. But what to do if one does not have cash? The one way only is to try to get the loan or secured loan.
hello, could you please help me. i got a mobile phone from a friend who got it off another friend who has died and we don’t know the make or model of it. i have a samsung sgh at home and the charger from it fits it so i’m thinking that it’s a samsung phone. it has all the features of an iphone 3g and it has an 8 mega pixel camera, dual sim card slots, ipod player, t.v and is a touchscreen. it does not have the port for the iphone charger/ ipod charger at the bottom of the phone just the port for the samsung charger/ samsung usb cable at the top of the phone. there are 2 IMEI numbers, the first one is, IMEI: 355002800031558 and the other one is, IMEI:35500288003155. There are numbers above the, IMEI numbers and they are GSM:850/900/1800/1900/MHZ and then some chinese print after that. PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS I’M GOING MAD IN THE HEAD. it will be really really appreciated thank you in advance
sir,I have a mobile handset of IMEI no. of 356433013352136.
Please answer whether I have genuine IMEI no. or not?
Hi
i am using dale Sim ZT160 phone.
its IMEI : 355160080073664 & IMEISV : 87
Now this time it don\’t support Sim
kindly registered my phone IMEI no.
Street: shivaji nagar R.H.B
ZIP: 314001
Town: Dungarpur Rajasthan
Phone: 9414758718
hey fool ask some mobile shop and get valid imei…u can’t get it frm net.. k??bye..
[...] Department of Telecommunications (DoT) making a right decision of banning fake IMEI Chinese and korean mobiles at the right time, Indian Mobile handset makers are seeing good effects. Yes, the country’s [...]
Just a few months back I purchased a chinese mobile hand set brand : “SIGMATEL” (Duo). It was working well. Seeing an ad regarding verification of IMEI I sent a SMS to 53232 on 22/11/09 and on the same day I received back a SMS from 53232 as : “Success- This IMEI belongs to BRAND SIGMATEL T33i” but a week thereafter the mobile net work connection through my two SIMs stopped to work. The same sims if put in different mobile handsets works. That is my hand set is dead……My question is -Is Sigmatel brand is banned? Will any body enlighten me on this?
http://myfxadvice.com investment company</a ?