December 01, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News
India will effectively “kill” some twenty-five million Chinese cell phones beginning tomorrow, December 1st.
India’s Department of Telecommunications has given the order to operators to “block cellphones” without a valid IMEI number. The move leaves millions ofChinese using mobile phones without an IMEI number with only two options: buy a new phone with a valid IMEI number or get the number implanted in the current phone using available software through the Cellular Operators Association of India.
According to the Times of India:
It’s the end of days for those cheap Chinese mobile handsets which do not have a genuine International Mobile Equipment Identity number. From the midnight of November 30, all these will go dead.