[kictanet] KeBS to re-emburse fake phone owners

[John Gitau]

Winning this one will be hard and fun to watch. Depending on the success criteria set, all fake phone manufacturers need to do is plug in an imei. Like 1112346 or whatever. 

They can be duplicates they won't care much. There is no benefit for a service provider in this. Its actually additional cost and a pain exchanging these imei database. Lots of benefit for law enforcement, great for 'original' phone manufacturers and btw what's original anyway?consumer? Who cares, just give us the rules to follow.

..remember when we had to deal with fake mac addresses? Same thing....I think sim registration and maybe forcing public ip per person tied to a registered device ( register all laptops?) will be the way to go or fancy dns like function tied to the registrar of persons and all my devices, their serials, ip,imei etc....:-)..

Jgitau
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On 3 Oct 2012, at 12:44, Steve Muchai <smuchai at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> +1.
> It could argued that operators should have never allowed invalid IMEIs
> to register on their networks in the first place, but this goes full
> circle, back to the CCK again - why the regulatory framework was not
> in place to prevent it in the first place.
> 
> The basic features of the GSM core network could have been used to
> block services to counterfeits from the onset, thus reducing the
> burden on KEBs. That would have denied the counterfeits a foothold in
> the market in the first place. Several birds dead, killed with one
> regulatory stone.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve