20,00,000 cellphones go dead over bad IMEI in India (includes our Spice Mobile)
December 1st, 2009 by Annkur
It is estimated that 20 million phones cellphones will go dead in India after the Department of Telecom’s move to ban GSM phones carrying an illegal IMEI number. We had alerted you yesterday on how to safeguard yourself and verify your cellphone’s IMEI, but we never imagined that the number of handsets going dead would be as high as 2 crore. 20 million is roughly 10% of India’s mobile market, that’s huge! On the flip side, this gets me to wonder about the scale of business these illegal Chinese handsets did in India…
And to add some ’spice’ to the whole issue, our own Spice Mobile D88n – which is a dual-sim phone – from a supposedly reputed manufacturer, has gone kaput over this IMEI issue. The handset now refuses to work on GSM 
One reason I had bought this for my cousin was the pretty ladies advertising for Spice Mobile. Girls, you always leave me heartbroken …
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Fake IMEI by a brand like Spice is a real shocker, we a manufacturer with genuine imei having retail network in india, welcome this initiative by IMEIData.com & Geek IT Stores
Get Genuine IMEI only at http://www.imeidata.com for chinese mobiles.
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good move by the government. now, the chinese manufacturers will suddenly face oblivion! I for one never supported cheap handsets whch would go kaput at any given time. rather pay lesser for sturdier handsets made in india!
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