+1<br><br>Well said, Steve.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Steve Muchai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smuchai@gmail.com" target="_blank">smuchai@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:44 PM, meshack emakunat <<a href="mailto:memakunat@yahoo.com">memakunat@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The CCK and KEBS are trying to fill a hole they dug by digging another and<br>
> using the soil to fill the first one. The idea of exonerating the KEBS from<br>
> the whole fiasco is not right since they have a responsibility in this. the<br>
<br>
</div>In a perfect world....<br>
<br>
(1) Years ago KeBS should have warned the public against counterfeits<br>
on the market.<br>
(2) Years ago CCK should have enacted regulations to ensure<br>
counterfeits don't work on the networks in the first place.<br>
<br>
My issue is, of the two which is the cart and which is the horse? If<br>
the latter had been done early enough, there'd have been less of a<br>
need for the former. If counterfeits did not work at all on the<br>
networks, buyers would have been aware to test and detect a<br>
counterfeit phone during purchase, lowering demand and consequently<br>
supply.<br>
<br>
Of course the counterfeiters would have quickly looked for other<br>
tricks, like implanting fake IMEIs (duplicates of real ones) but I<br>
imagine a situation where a vendor would bring in a bunch of handsets,<br>
and upon finding some IMEIs already existing on the operators' EIRs,<br>
would have the operators and regulator take action.<br>
<br>
My point is that regulatory measures, implemented early enough, could<br>
have saved us from this entire fiasco.<br>
<br>
Am I looking at it too simplistically?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Steve<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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