December 1st, 2009
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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November 30th, 2009
After months of planning and speculation India has banned illegal GSM devices that sport a fake, invalid or no IMEI number. Telecom operators have been directed to disable all such phones. This can lead to panic amongst many china phone users who are not sure about the IMEI of their devices. But here we have a solution. There are 2 ways to validate the IMEI number of your handset and incase your have a bad IMEI; you just need to register one for your handset which would cost Rs 199. Simple, Sweet 
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December 22nd, 2008
We already saw the fight Nokia is putting up to fight the chinese mobiles. In the last 1-2 year s these handsets have flooded the local markets and ruined the low-end cream that the industry was growing on since the last 5 years.
And here comes the fight from the Indian govt to tackle the unbranded phones without legal IMEI. It is believed that these phones are widely used by terrorists. Earlier the govt had directed the telecos to disconnect mobile handsets on their network without proper IMEI by 6th Jan 2009. However the deadline has now been expanded till 31 March 2009.
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