CEIR System

CEIR System
 

News: Lost your phone? You need not worry anymore as The Centre is coming out with a new system that will allow the common man to block and track their lost mobile phones.
 

About:
 Central Equipment Identity Register is a tracking system to combat mobile phone theft and facilitate the blocking and tracking of lost or stolen mobile phones across the country.
 CEIR serves as a central depository or database of International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers, models, versions, and other details of mobile devices.
 Centre for Department of Telematics (CDoT) is implementing body and the system is ready for Pan-India deployment.
 

Key Features:
 It has an in-built mechanism to detect cloned mobile phones, access to International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number and associated mobile number, it prevents revenue loss to the government and it mandates disclosure of IMEI number prior to mobile device sale. It can block unauthorized mobile phones on telecom networks.
 

Why the Centre is allowing the common man to block and track their lost phones?
 The basic purpose of CEIR is to ease reporting of stolen and lost mobiles and block the use of mobiles all over the country. This will discourage the theft of mobile phones, enable the tracing of the stolen and lost mobiles to the police, detection of cloned or counterfeit mobiles, restrict the use of such cloned mobiles, as well as protect the interest of the consumers by making them aware of the information related to fake and cloned mobile phones.