Govt to Roll Out Lost Mobile Blocking, Tracking System Pan-India on May 17

People will be capable of block and observe their misplaced or stolen cellphones 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 operating 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 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 in a position so as to add options to test the usage of cloned cellphones throughout all telecom networks.

The authorities has made it obligatory to reveal IMEI — a 15-digit distinctive numeric identifier — of cellular units earlier than their sale in India.

The cellular networks can have entry to the checklist of accredited IMEI numbers which can test the entry of any unauthorised cellphones on their community.

Telecom operators and CEIR system can have visibility into IMEI variety of the machine and cellular quantity linked to it, and the knowledge is being utilized in some states to trace your misplaced or stolen mobiles by means of CEIR.

“One of the widespread practices is that miscreants change IMEI variety of stolen cellphones which prevents monitoring and blocking of such handsets. It was a nationwide safety challenge. The CEIR will be capable of block any cloned cellphones 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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