Today’s issue of the Official Gazette included an important decision regarding IMEI codes. According to the decision, devices that do not signal for 1 year will be deleted from the registered IMEI pool. Re-registering the code will not be easy.
In today’s issue of the Official Gazette, Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) made an important decision. Actually, we knew about this decision a long time ago, but it has become official as of today. With the new regulation published “clone IMEI” era is officially over.
We have readers who remember; A bill was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly last year. This offer extends the IMEI pool registration period which is normally 7 years. reduced it to 1 year. Today’s issue of the Official Gazette hosts the regulation that forms the framework of that bill. January 1, 2024 The regulation, which will come into force as of this date, will largely prevent the use of illegal phones.
The IMEI registration of the device that does not give a signal for 1 year will be canceled!
Published in the Official Gazette Regulation Amending the Regulation on the Registration of Devices Having Electronic Identity Information IMEI codes of the devices are retrieved from the IMEI pool if no signal is received for 1 year. will be deleted. In other words, the device in question will become unregistered. Citizens who wish will be able to have their unregistered IMEI code added back to the pool. However, here too there is a very serious effort process will start.
An IMEI code used by person A in the past will not be re-registered by person B!
According to the regulation, a citizen will be able to repool the IMEI code of a device that he has not used for at least 1 year. Citizens who want to do this Using e-Government will be sufficient. However, there is a situation like this: Let’s say the IMEI code of a device that has not been used by person A for at least 1 year has been cancelled. Any person B will not be able to reactivate the IMEI code that person A used in the past. The only authority here is the device importer or manufacturer will be.
The decision published in the Official Gazette from here accessible.
What did the bill say?
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