The Council of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) will implement a new resolution on 11 January, which will be added to resolution 92-19, for takes control of the mobile phone registry and prevents activation of stolen equipment.
Indotel President Nelson Arroyo told Listín Diario that these resolutions would keep track of mobile phone IMEIs at the time of activation to establish that it had not been stolen.
Resolution 070-19, Arroyo said, expects service providers to install the necessary equipment and will be a requirement for people who will activate a mobile phone, such as photos and the location of their fingerprints.
This provision, “Standard 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, Listin editorialized on the subject and called for tougher sanctions for mobile phone shops knowing their questionable ownership, regarding the armed assault on the director of the newspaper El Día and his family last Saturday in a park in the community of San Cristóbal .
In the coming weeks, Indotel will launch an explanatory process of the standard, so that its importance is understood.
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To control the registration and use of mobile terminal equipment (mobile phones) in networks, the internal databases of suppliers that are members of the Association of Communication and Technology Companies (Comtec) are interconnected to the centralized database (BCD) of the managed Denied Series system. of Indotel. Claudia García, CEO of Comtec, says the operators have adapted their networks and systems to ensure that the Denied Series system is consulted in the process of registering or accessing mobile terminal equipment in their network.
In addition, supplier customers have mechanisms for reporting stolen or lost terminals that operate in person at their service centers during working hours and by telephone in 24-hour mode for seven days.
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Next January, users who will activate a mobile phone will have to take a photo and put their fingerprints.
Nelson Arroyo explained that holding the IMEI record controls the person activating a mobile phone, a measure of resolution 92-19.