Is your mobile equipment among the 5 million for blocking?

PIURA CITY, Peru – On Thursday, May 30th,1.5 million cellphones left literally inoperative because to the blocking applied by the Supervising Organism for Private Investment in Telecommunications, or OSIPTEL as its acronyme in Spanish, as part of a government’s strategy for reducing the bribery.


The OSIPTEL’s procedure consists in identifying the international mobile equipment identity, or IMEI, numbers those do not coincide with the user’s chip number according to a database brought by the Peruvian mobile service providers. When detecting that the IMEI number does not belong to the user’s mobile number, it is considered as invalid and it is blocked under suspicion of the device was stolen or was purchased irregularily.


Unlike the mobile number, which can change according to the territory or can activate in different devices, IMEI is a unique number worldwide that identify each mobile equipment, and it is ruled by the Global System of Mobile Communications, or GSM, the technology the industry uses for more than two decades.


OSIPTEL’s Piura Chief Christian Dediós reminded that it is not the first blocking conducted by that office. The first one was on April 30th and the next ones come on June 30th and July 30th until more than 5 million mobile devices suspiciously purchased get out of service.


The official indicated that the affected users were warned of this rule two days before by their mobile provider. He underlined this does not imply the suspension of the hired mobile plan, it just shuts down the mobile equipment. In fact, if the user sets the chip into a valid purchased device, the mobile plan could be used as it was hired.


If a user disagrees the blocking of the mobile equipment, is able to claim to the mobile provider under a blocking questioning issue. This only will apply when the physical IMEI number coincides to the logic IMEI number, that appears dialing *#06# (only for equipment purchased in Peru). After the first blocking, 235 claims were received, which 85 were accepted by the mobile companies. The other 150 claims might wait for an OSIPTEL statement in 15-legal-day lapse.


In the other hand, OSIPTEL’s Piura chief recommended the users to purchase equipment only in authorized mobile stores, as well as avoiding to call at informal technical services for fixing any faultbecause it could become the IMEI code as invalid.


If you wwant to verify more information in Spanish, go to http://www.osiptel.gob.pe/sistemas/sigem.html


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