Comments on: KEDA agrees to cooperate with Police on stopping trading of stolen mobile phones http://tech.one.com.pk/2005/07/10/keda-agrees-to-cooperate-with-police-on-stopping-trading-of-stolen-mobile-phones/ Exploring Pakistan's Technology Frontier Sun, 20 May 2012 19:07:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: haq http://tech.one.com.pk/2005/07/10/keda-agrees-to-cooperate-with-police-on-stopping-trading-of-stolen-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-153 haq Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-153 where are the local mobile carriers?Why aren't the mobile carriers (Mobilink, Telenor etc) jumping on this oppertunity to protect their customers? It could be added as another service/benefit they offer. The can have the caller call their carrier and ask them to disable the phone on their network (each phone has a unique id which can be used to identify it). This will ofcourse happen once the caller has properly identifed themselves. Though, to make it work properly it would need to be an industry wide push. where are the local mobile carriers?Why aren’t the mobile carriers (Mobilink, Telenor etc) jumping on this oppertunity to protect their customers? It could be added as another service/benefit they offer. The can have the caller call their carrier and ask them to disable the phone on their network (each phone has a unique id which can be used to identify it). This will ofcourse happen once the caller has properly identifed themselves. Though, to make it work properly it would need to be an industry wide push.

]]> By: chowkidar http://tech.one.com.pk/2005/07/10/keda-agrees-to-cooperate-with-police-on-stopping-trading-of-stolen-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-156 chowkidar Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-156 RE: where are the local mobile carriers?That's an interesting proposition and I don't think it's implemented anywhere else in the world either. Now that you bring it up... I too am wondering why? One guess is because of the management headaches. There would have to be a global blacklist implemented by all cellular networks. Another reason might be the overhead of identifying the caller's cellphone and comparing it against the blacklist database (which would continue to grow over time and could become quite huge). RE: where are the local mobile carriers?That’s an interesting proposition and I don’t think it’s implemented anywhere else in the world either. Now that you bring it up… I too am wondering why?

One guess is because of the management headaches. There would have to be a global blacklist implemented by all cellular networks. Another reason might be the overhead of identifying the caller’s cellphone and comparing it against the blacklist database (which would continue to grow over time and could become quite huge).

]]> By: BigSexyWashboardAbsAl http://tech.one.com.pk/2005/07/10/keda-agrees-to-cooperate-with-police-on-stopping-trading-of-stolen-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-167 BigSexyWashboardAbsAl Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-167 The AnswerBig sexy has got the answer for you. Apparnetly reporting your phone as stolen and giving your IMEI involves getting an FIR made, and this whole Q&A thing as well as a hefty fine! People just dont want to be tormented by this B.S at the end of the day, so yes, yet again Pakistani's took a good idea and found a way to make it a pain in the ass! But still if anyone is interested, you can get your IMEI number by dialing *#06# and if you phone is stolen, report this number to your carrier! Big Sexy's Got Cha Numba! The AnswerBig sexy has got the answer for you.
Apparnetly reporting your phone as stolen and giving your IMEI involves getting an FIR made, and this whole Q&A thing as well as a hefty fine! People just dont want to be tormented by this B.S at the end of the day, so yes, yet again Pakistani’s took a good idea and found a way to make it a pain in the ass!

But still if anyone is interested, you can get your IMEI number by dialing *#06# and if you phone is stolen, report this number to your carrier!

Big Sexy’s Got Cha Numba!

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