[kictanet] KeBS to re-emburse fake phone owners

Tue Oct 2 22:16:11 EAT 2012

KBS sticker is not a proof KEBS certification. Downtown in Nairobi you can get any sticker (KEBS, KRA etc) for a song. In my opinion the buck stops with both CCK and KEBS. CCK is mandated to type approve telcom equipments and uses KEBS as an agency to do this. On the other hand KEBS is mandated to ensure that all product sold to consumers meet certain standards.  CCK can use another agency if it feels KEBS is not doing a good job. At the same time KEBS can  reject any CCK type approved telco product if it is harmful to consumers. 

------Original message------
From: S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>
To: <scmutunga at yahoo.com>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 7:34:26 PM GMT+0300
Subject: Re: [kictanet] KeBS to re-emburse fake phone owners

Wash,

Will also check the box.

Have seen KeBS sticker on some boxes. Could have been phones bought at
Safaricom (including an IDEOS that was stolen - this should be another
thread) had KeBS stickers.

Purchased the phone at Westgate (FoneExpress) 3 years ago this December. It
came with a Samsung warranty that was honoured to upgrade the OS. The OS
upgrade was one of the selling points on the box.

We will see how it goes.
On Oct 2, 2012 5:03 PM, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Muraya,
>
> You appear to be distorting facts. I haven't seen any phone with a KeBS
> certification. I'll check the phone boxes again today.
>
> Whenever a phone is upgraded, there is never an interference with the
> IMEI, as it is stored in the NVRAM (I suppose that's the name) and is never
> part of the OS partition else those of us who install unofficial ROMs on
> these phones would have lost their IMEIs ages ago.
>
> You sure your phone isn't Smsung? :)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:06 PM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> My phone (with a safaricom line) is KeBS certified but has just been
>> switched off.
>>
>> Checking the IMEI it is all 000000000....
>>
>> Also just remembered the OS was upgraded by a Samsung certified vendor -
>> 2 years ago.
>>
>> Whatever they did, they probably never restored the IMEI while upgrading
>> the OS.
>>
>> Off to a safaricom shop which will probably refer me to the Samsung Disti
>> [?]
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:11 PM, John Gitau <jgitau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  I'm not sure I understand where KEBS failed. Unless the phones being
>>> switched off were actually certified by KEBS.
>>>
>>> What we need is proper consumer advocacy/education. For many many
>>> things. The consumers should know where to buy proper phones, and maybe
>>> some entity like cck should take on the task of educating us (which they
>>> do), carriers should ensure the sim is registered and an IMEI registers but
>>> they cant be expected to know which are fake/accurate either. in the end
>>> the consumer will bear the burden, if only to serve as a lesson. Then
>>> someone at our borders obviously fails us.
>>>
>>> jgitau
>>>
>>>
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