Illegal IMEI Number Includes Spice Mobile Phones
Now this is something shocking. The Indian Government, after a lot of urge, has banned illegal IMEI number for a mobile phone. For those who don’t know what is IMEI number and the banning news that came as a panic among many users, IMEI is International Mobile Equipment Number which is a unique 15 or 17 digit code allocated to every mobile phone. That is every mobile has a unique IMEI number. The main usage of IMEI number is that when a mobile phone is stolen or gets misplaced, cancelling the IMEI number defunctions the mobile phone.
The plans of ban have been going on for sometime and now the Government finally looked into it.
The group that has been affected by this ban is the China phone users. China phones rarely come with a valid IMEI number. With the ban of invalid IMEI number, it becomes essential for one (china phone users) to verify and validate the IMEI number. For verification of the IMEI number, you may read – How To Check Or Register A Valid IMEI For Your Mobile. You will find steps to verify if your mobile phone’s IMEI is authentic or not, and if it’s not you may take help of the concerned authorities given in the post.
Wait, the highlight comes here – over 20 million mobile phones became dead after illegal IMEI ban. That’s a huge number. It indeed is. This figure amounts to 10% of the total Indian mobile market. Something shocking is yet to come. The so called nice Spice Mobile D88n, the dual sim phone, is also in the illegal IMEI number class. To many it may be come as grief. Since Spice mobile phones are from reputed manufacturing enterprises, this news may be be quite surprising.
All such users whose mobile phones have been dead are surely unhappy with this move, but if we look at all dimensions of it, this was a necessity.