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| Subject: 25 million Indians have their mobiles blocked by paranoid statists Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:20 am | |
| Indian authorities have blocked 25 million Chinese-made mobile phones that lack an identification number allowing calls to be traced, in the latest push to tighten telecom security.
Officials at the telecom ministry said they had banned services to low-end Chinese phones without a 15-digit International Mobile Equipment Identification (IMEI) number.
The Government has also launched an investigation into the use of Chinese-made telecom equipment in border areas due to fears that national security could be jeopardised - a move reflecting wider border tensions.
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