[kictanet] KeBS to re-emburse fake phone owners

[Odhiambo Washington]

+1

Well said, Steve.



On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Steve Muchai <smuchai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:44 PM, meshack emakunat <memakunat at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > The CCK and KEBS are trying to fill a hole they dug by digging another
> and
> > using the soil to fill the first one. The idea of exonerating the KEBS
> from
> > the whole fiasco is not right since they have a responsibility in this.
> the
>
> In a perfect world....
>
> (1) Years ago KeBS should have warned the public against counterfeits
> on the market.
> (2) Years ago CCK should have enacted regulations to ensure
> counterfeits don't work on the networks in the first place.
>
> My issue is, of the two which is the cart and which is the horse? If
> the latter had been done early enough, there'd have been less of a
> need for the former. If counterfeits did not work at all on the
> networks, buyers would have been aware to test and detect a
> counterfeit phone during purchase, lowering demand and consequently
> supply.
>
> Of course the counterfeiters would have quickly looked for other
> tricks, like implanting fake IMEIs (duplicates of real ones) but I
> imagine a situation where a vendor would bring in a bunch of handsets,
> and upon finding some IMEIs already existing on the operators' EIRs,
> would have the operators and regulator take action.
>
> My point is that regulatory measures, implemented early enough, could
> have saved us from this entire fiasco.
>
> Am I looking at it too simplistically?
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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