Then our phones will just be stolen here and sold in congo like our cars already are. In fact forget congo, Southern Sudan should be hot these days for those selling questionable phones.
The advantage of sim card registration is knowing exactly who owns that sim but not where and how to find them since the concept of physical addresses in Uganda is basically dead. Unless the thief keeps the phone on and their general where-abouts are triangulated by cell tower (I doubt we have remote phone gps enabling and tracking yet). From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bright Onapito Sent: 18 January 2012 11:52 To: Uganda Linux User Group Subject: Re: [LUG] Register your SIM card(s) with UCC But it is possible to bind a SIM to an IMEI. If the Telecos decided to, actually if UCC made it mandatory, coupled with registering the SIMs, then I suppose it would be quite hard for phone thieves. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Ronald Kato Odongo <[email protected]> wrote: The IMEI number is used to uniquely identify a phone on a GSM network. It works much like the MAC address of network host. Mobile phone owners who have their phones stolen can contact their mobile network provider and ask them disable a phone using its IMEI number. With an IMEI number, the phone can be blocked from the network quickly and easily. It is important to note that swapping a SIM card will not stop a phone from being banned. IMEI numbers are stored in the phones themselves, not on the SIM cards. Regardless of the phones you, records about the SIM and corresponding IMEI can be retrieved from the Telcos, thereby tracking a lost phone. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Bright Onapito <[email protected]> wrote: Register your sim card. imagine you lost your phone. you went to the phone tracking guys (police i assume). they can use an IMEI or whatever they use. They find the phone based on the GSM cell location. If they have all the sim cards registered it means two things: 1. If the phone is tracked, it saves alot of time knowing who 07xxxxxxxx is because they have that number. Its relatively easy to followup someone whose details you know than some wild card, once that number is put into your stolen phone. 2.that they will require you to register the phone you use as well. This is a more stingy one because once you change phones, then your IMEI wont be recognized. So if someone tries to register a stolen phone, voila! _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. -- Thanks and Regards, Ronald Kato Odongo _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. -- Bright Onapito Onabright Holdings Limited +256 792 782629 www.onabright.com I purpose to be part of the solution and not the problem
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