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It's always boggled me that mobile operators (and the Police) do very little to help try and trace stolen phones, or share IMEI block lists amongst operators.

by alexkus 14y ago

It's always boggled me that mobile operators (and the Police) do very little to help try and trace stolen phones, or share IMEI block lists amongst operators. Tying stolen IMEIs to IMSIs (when the phone is sold on or reused) should lead to a large number of recovered phones as not every stolen phone will be reused with a pre-paid SIM (and therefore untraceable IMSI).

nodata 14y ago
Don't they do this in the UK?
- omh 14y ago
  There is a central blacklist of IMEIs for stolen phones. This seems to work pretty well (anecdotally, many stolen phones are sent out of the country) I don't think that the police do anything like this for actually tracing stolen phones though.