Signal Law enacted! IMEI cloning is finished!

In the proposal, which was brought to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey last month and subsequently accepted, it was decided to reduce the duration of the devices, which have been allowed to be offline for 7 years, to 1 year. As we guessed, IMEI throwing, IMEI cloning and illegal phone usage were shown as the reason. Here are the details…

Is the period of IMEI cloning on smuggled phones over? Along with the dry, the age also burned

Today, we know that the prices of all technological products, especially smart phones, have increased many times and this has increased the use of illegal products. However, since the first day of smartphones, products brought illegally in Turkey have been traded openly.

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Of course, using these devices is not that easy. Because the illegal process called IMEI throwing – IMEI cloning must be applied to phones that are not registered in the passport. They do this by processing the IMEI numbers of old or malfunctioning devices to tax-free phones from abroad. But let’s say that there is a heavy penalty for both the doer and the user.

However, these heavy penalties were not enough to prevent use. Because the only way to detect is to turn off all of them if multiple devices using the same IMEI number are sending signals. After that, the owner of the phone that has the original IMEI address, that is, purchased from Turkey, can have the device unlocked by applying to the relevant institutions and service along with the invoice.

The citizen using the smuggled device, on the other hand, manages to open his device for the second time by using the IMEI of one of his scrap or old phones. It is even possible to do this as the shutdown takes place. Therefore, the measures were not sufficient.

So, how does the Signal Law, enacted today, aim to prevent this situation? There are hundreds of thousands of old or broken phones lying idle on the market right now. Until yesterday, it was expected 7 years for these devices to be used, that is, to signal again. But now it will wait 1 year.

Therefore, in this 1 year, either the IMEIs of these devices will be processed on illegal phones or it will be necessary to ensure that each device sends a signal by inserting a SIM card at certain intervals. But as we mentioned, most of them are broken or already trashed.

So there is no way to insert a SIM card into these devices and make them send signals. For this reason, if IMEI numbers are not copied to illegal phones, they will be closed within 1 year. If it is copied, when two devices send signals at the same time, it will be detected and both will be turned off, so the old phone will not be used again.

Of course, this will not reduce the number of illegal devices on the market to 0 all at once. Because there are old products that are constantly scrapped and sold for 1/10 of the passport registration fee in the second hand. But at the end of this 1 year, more than half of the IMEI pool of the devices on the market will disappear.

After this decision, it should be noted that many people may be adversely affected as a backup of their old devices in their drawers. If they do not insert a SIM card and send signals within 1 year, these phones will also be turned off. However, as we mentioned, it is possible to open the invoice by applying to the relevant institutions and authorized services.

The change in the law is as follows:

“Seven continuous years” in the first sentence of the third paragraph of Article 57 of the Electronic Communications Law dated 5/11/2008 and numbered 5809 is “one uninterrupted year since the last signal is received”, “seven years” in the second sentence is “a year”. yearly”, the third sentence has been changed as follows and the following sentence has been added to the paragraph.

“In this way, when devices whose electronic identity information is deregistered are used with a line belonging to their end users, the electronic identity information of these devices is re-registered without the need for any further action.”

“For devices whose electronic identity information cannot be re-registered in this way, an application must be made within the framework of the Institution’s regulations.”