Announced How Many ‘Million’ Clone Phones Are Found in Turkey

years ago in Turkey about smartphones made an important decision. Unfortunately, this decision has made the process of buying a new smartphone very difficult. Many people either took a loan from the bank for a new smartphone or had to buy a phone with cash. However, this application caused a huge problem revealed. According to Mustafa Kemal Turnacı, President of the Mobile Communication Tools and Information Technologies Businessmen’s Association (MOBISAD), the state is responsible for existing practices. over 5 billion TL suffers tax losses. So how?

According to MOBISAD President Turnacı, the smartphone renewal rate in our country has increased from 2 to 4 years. In other words, citizens use the smartphone they bought for an average of 4 years. Number of new or second-hand smartphones sold in Turkey on an annual basis around 10 million Turnacı said that a significant portion of these phones, such as 35 percent (3.5 million units), with clone IMEI method He said it changed hands. This causes the government to lose taxes.

What is Clone IMEI?

All phones to a special IMEI number has. You can think of this number as the identification numbers of telephones. Clone IMEI, on the other hand, can be explained simply as integrating the IMEI number of an old phone registered in Turkey into a new unregistered smart phone. Thus, the ‘identity number’ of phone A is transferred to phone B and that phone by an illegal method enters our country. As a matter of fact, this transaction is a crime and the state loses tax due to the clone IMEI…

Turnacı, Chairman of MOBISAD, has touched on this point exactly. Citizen buys new smartphone because it’s hard It turns to the second hand, and a significant part of the second-hand phones put up for sale are brought into our country with the clone IMEI method. According to Turnacı, if the installment application in smartphone sales is stretched or completely removed, informality will decrease..

The full statement is as follows:

“We support the steps taken by the state to reduce imports. almost all consists of imported products. However, we estimate that the tax loss caused by unregistered products is over 5 billion TL. The measures taken are not suitable for the dynamics of the sector and the informal cloning system in our sector has become so widespread that if this is not prevented, irreparable We will be in a situation.

In the mobile technology sector, there are 12 installments for products under 5 thousand TL, and only 3 installments for products above this amount. When we consider inflation, the consumer’s purchasing power has dropped. He uses unregistered means to get the phone he needs. If there is no flexibility in the installment restriction, we will sacrifice the mobile technology sector to the informal sector. To prevent this, the installment limitation needs to be removed.

Phones that do not normally receive a signal for 7 years are turned off at the end of the 7th year. However, this period should be reduced to 2 years. With the BTK serial number, the security of the phone must also be ensured. Phones without signal for 2 years be removed from the pool, get the right of use from BTK or e-government as needed, and serial numbers let’s secure…”