Around 2,150 Mobiles Cloned In 09-10

[KumaarShah 143]

NEW DELHI: Telecom service providers reported around 2,150 cases of misuse of mobile cloning in different parts of the country during 2009-2010, Telecom Minister A Raja has told Rajya Sabha.

"The government has come to know through telecom service providers that approximately 2,150 cases of misuse of mobile cloning through duplication of subscriber identity in different parts of country have come to their notice during 2009-10," said Raja in the statement.

Mobile cloning refers to the act of copying the identity of one mobile telephone to another.

Subscriber identity can be cloned by the use of digital data interpreters (DDI). DDI are devices manufactured to intercept electronic serial number (ESN).

A hacker monitoring the radio wave transmission from the cellphones of legitimate subscribers can capture (ESN) without the knowledge of the subscriber.

Any call made to the cloned phone are billed and traced to a legitimate phone account. An individual thus ends up with unexpected monthly phone bills.

Though the process of cloning subscriber identity is a tedious task owing to the encryption mechanism used in mobile network, the government has stepped up monitoring through its fields units, the telecom enforcement, resource and monitoring (TERM) cells.

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[Mufaddal 678]

A hacker monitoring the radio wave transmission from the cellphones of legitimate subscribers can capture (ESN) without the knowledge of the subscriber.

this is very very old

this used to happen in early days of cdma in 2000-2003

now cdma systems have been patched up of this loophole with better encryptions

[::Hitesh:: 1,763]

monitoring system looks too poor

only 2150 ?

[me_saket 73]

..........lolllllll

[Sadikk 301]

[Mufaddal 678]

2150 outside rimweb hai bhai !!!

[aalok 442]

lolzzzz....

[HetalDP 947]

This is Reported unethical Cloning

i think there are more then 50000 people who do ethical cloning for self use for better device

[me_saket 73]

Come on

Do our work well.

And don't be counted urself in 2150 list.

[Greatest 55]

nice post.. and very hilarious too..

[@mitJ@in 256]

All operators wants to stop Cloning only for there own benifits not for a innocent subscriber whose bill is getting high due to cloned number.

Unlimited Products are threat to Operators, this is the main reason for FUP, now every operator puts a FUP in Unlimited Product so that product is more than enough for one Subscriber not for many.

Reliance gives Unlimited Pack now with a very large FUP which they even ommits to tell the customer becuase they are more than enough if it is used in one mobile only.

Remember Reliance NetConnect 1x plan - Platinum Rs.1500 discontinued and Introduced Rs.799 Plan - 20GB Plan, 20GB on 1x is just Unlimited but if used with one hardware.

[KanagaDeepan 1,084]

Still 2150 Unethical cloning seems NOT so big for a Big and less careful country like ours.. Or the report is not correct