The Council of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) will put into effect on 11 January a new resolution, which will be added to resolution 92-19, for take control of the mobile registry and prevent activations of stolen equipment.
Indotel president Nelson Arroyo told Listín Diario that through these resolutions, a record will be kept of the IMEI of the mobiles at the time of being activated, to determine that it has not been stolen.
Resolution 070-19, Arroyo said, is waiting for service providers to install the required equipment and will be a requirement for people going to activate a cell phone, such as photographs and the placement of their fingerprints.
This provision, “Regulation governing the contracting and activation of public telecommunications services”, was approved by the Indotel Council, but is scheduled to enter into force on 11 January.
Yesterday, the Listín editorialized on the subject and called for tougher sanctions on stores that purchase cell phones in the knowledge of their dubious ownership, about the armed assault on the director of the newspaper El Dia and his family in the past Saturday in a park in the community of Sant Cristòfol.
In the coming weeks the Indotel will launch an explanatory process of the standard to understand its importance.
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For the control of the registration and use of mobile (cellular) terminal equipment in the networks, the internal databases of the member providers of the Association of Communication and Technology Companies (Comtec), are interconnected to the Centralized Database (BCD) of the Denied Series System managed by the Indotel. Clàudia García, executive director of Comtec, states that the operators have adapted their networks and systems to ensure that the System of Denied Series is consulted in the process of registration or access of mobile terminal equipment in its network.
In addition, the lenders’ customers have reporting mechanisms for stolen or lost terminals that operate in person at their service centers during working hours and by telephone on a 24-hour basis for seven days.
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January 11 enters resolution
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Next January, users who are going to activate a cell phone will have to take a photo and put their footprints.
Nelson Arroyo explained that by having the IMEI register, you have control of the person who activates a cell phone, a measure of resolution 92-19.