KUALA LUMPUR: Stolen handphones will be rendered unusable within three hours of the owners reporting the devices missing. And even changing the SIM cards will not reactivate them. The system, to be introduced before the end of the year, is part of a government crime-prevention initiative to reduce phone thefts. A telecommunications industry source said that industry regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), issued a directive to telcos in April to comply with the new requirements for this initiative. MCMC chairman Datuk Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi said the system was to reduce street crime and handphone thefts since stolen smartphones can be sold at half the retail price in the black market. “Yes, we are doing this. Many countries like the United States, Australia and Britain already have such a system in place. We got the consumers’ backing,” he said. rightway-tan.blogspot/2013/08/how-stolen-handphones-would-be-useless.html
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:39:23 +0000
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