Recently in Turkey IMEI cloning The news of a precautionary measure coming to the process made a sound. Here’s the precautionary plan Adoption in Parliament was done.
Last week’s hit IMEI cloning the issue came up. which has become an important problem in the smartphone market in Turkey lately, IMEI information has been changed or in other words, it has been regulated for devices whose IMEI has been cloned. In the new period presented and accepted to the Turkish Grand National Assembly, the devices that have not received service from the electronic communication networks, which are currently 7 years old, The period of deactivation of electronic identity information is considered to be 1 year. Basically no signal for one year anymore (No calls, no internet access or no texting) mobile phones will be blocked.
featured on OdaTV According to the statement, after one year, if the last user of the mobile phone inserts a sim card, phone will be active again. However, if the deactivated phone has been sold or gifted to someone else, the sim card of the person who bought the phone it will not work on the phone.
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The reasons for the new regulation are as follows: had been shared: “According to the findings, it has been understood that factors such as the ease of cloning for the use of mobile phones brought into the country illegally and the large IMEI pool to be cloned to mobile phones have an important role in the continuation of smuggling activities.
For this reason, with the purpose of narrowing the IMEI pool and increasing deterrence by preventing irregular use, with the third paragraph of article 57 of the Law No. 5809; The period of deactivation of electronic identity information of devices that do not receive service from electronic communication networks, which is currently seven years, has been reduced to one year, and mobile phones that have no signal for an uninterrupted year since the last signal is received. It is intended to deactivate their IMEI by BTK.”
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He made some statements on this subject last week. Mustafa Kemal Turnacı, President of Mobile Communication Tools and Information Technologies Businessmen Association (MOBISAD)“According to many studies, people prefer to stay hungry rather than be without a mobile phone. Despite nearly 11 million official sales this year, with the most optimistic forecast, cloning is expected to reach 35 percent (3 million 850 thousand) and the number of passengers to reach 500 thousand. Both are record levels. Here, both the country, the citizen and the industry are losing.” he said.
“Emphasizing that 5G should not be discussed at all if cloning cannot be resolved” Turnaci, in addition to the above “This problem has not been solved for 15 years. It is not possible for the sector, which is more than 35 percent unregistered, to survive.” had made a statement.
Behind the increase of IMEI cloning in Turkey, There are smartphone prices that have reached a very high level.