Indian Telecom Ministry is now pretty sure that it wants to cut off almost 25 million mobile phones from the network they are operating on, as these phones do not have a IMEI number or they have fake IMEI numbers. DoT or the Department of Telecommunications had already said that, it was going to come down hard on Chinese made mobile phones and also bar calls on these mobile phones. Now the service providers have been asked to not process calls made from such phones with fake or with no IMEI number. Currently there are 315 million mobile phones in the Indian market and out of them, 25 million phones have fake IMEI number or no IMEI number. Chinese mobile phones have proliferated in the Indian market as they do not have a traceable IMEI number and they have most of the high-end functions with cheap price tag. These phones are preferred by common man as well as anti social elements. The recent terrorist attacks on India have given evidence that most of the terrorists used Chinese mobile phones to communicate with each other. The fresh-in-mind gruesome terrorist attack on Mumbai also witnessed the use of Chinese mobile phones. It seems that, Indian government does not want to leave any stone unturned in cracking the proliferation of terrorism as well as Chinese mobile phones in India.
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