[kictanet] CCK's Directive on counterfeit phones

[McTim]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Chris Foster <cgfoster at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> [By the way this directive is also very unlikely to stop "counterfeiting",
> grey market phone producers can easily duplicate IMEI's or take them from
> dead phones, which are much harder to detect without a cross-operator,
> cross-national mobile equipment registry databases.
>
> The real way to stop such "counterfeiting" is to punish importers not the
> users, and enforce such standards at points of import and sale, not through
> such detrimental technological switch offs]
>


That's it in a nutshell AFAIAC.

(Walu, that means As Far As I Am Concerned)  ;-))


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Cheers,

McTim
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