Minister Opstelten claims that providers as of this summer stolen phones to disable the device to block the network. The providers find the minister’s statements are premature. “He runs forward on the issues.”
If all providers of a particular telephone of the network, fend off, it means that the phone in each case in the Netherlands is no longer useful to call, text and mobile data use. The blockage is done through the unique serial number of each phone, the imei. The phone logs on to the network with both data from the sim card as the imei, so the blockade is working. Is working abroad the blockade often does not, so stolen phones will still work abroad.
Minister Opstelten turn to his own words, ” great pressure on providers to ensure that stolen phones from soon to be de-activated to be made, reports NOS. “I try now to legislation to to escape, because that slows down the. If necessary, we will do that, but we try just together.”
Provider T-Mobile says to Tweakers that it is still too early to say when the providers are going to start with the disabling of phones. “We are in discussion with the ministry,” said spokesman Erik Dekker. “But I can’t say anything about the timing. The minister has a wish granted, but it is too early to have something to say about that.” That stolen phones are likely to be excluded from the network, is already clear. In foreign countries this is already happening longer.
Vodafone says about the same: “At this moment, we are working together with KPN and T-Mobile on a plan for how these blocks work, and what exactly is needed for it,” says spokesman Richard Blade against Tweakers. “It is very important that the processes of blocks walk well to avoid errors. I can therefore have nothing concrete to say about the implementation time. For the effectiveness, in each case, it requires that all providers participate, otherwise all stolen cell phones to the networks that do not block.”
Update 11:53: The response from Vodafone has been added in the last article.
