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  Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud cl@isbd.net - 2015-07-26 12:09 +0100
    Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-08-03 23:35 -0400
      Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud cl@isbd.net - 2015-08-04 14:26 +0100
        Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-08-04 18:11 +0000

#21373 — Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud

Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
> 
> > If IMEI alteration were fraud (which is already illegal), there would
> > be no need to legislate an explicit prohibition on it.
> 
> You don't live in the UK do you? Our governments like needless laws ...
> 
> They make smoking illegal, then make it illegal to fail to display signs 
> saying that smoking is illegal, though it's not illegal to fail to 
> display a sign saying murder is illegal.
> 
> They (will) introduce laws making it illegal for the government to 
> change tax rates, when everyone knows that governments can abolish the 
> law any time they want to change tax rates.
> 
> Anyhow, it's criminal to alter IMEIs here.
> 
What happens if I go to France (or anywhere else that it's legal) and
change it there and then come back?

... and what about a tablet (like the one I bought a couple of years
ago) that had no IMEI numbers for its two SIM cards?

It's one of these UK laws that is totally unenforceable nonsense.

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Chris Green
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On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:09:03 +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:

> and what about a tablet (like the one I bought a couple of years
> ago) that had no IMEI numbers for its two SIM cards?

It's not SIM cards or tablets that need IMEI numbers, it's GSM telephones.
And even a dual-SIM telephone needs only one IMEI. HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp
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Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

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tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:09:03 +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
> 
> > and what about a tablet (like the one I bought a couple of years
> > ago) that had no IMEI numbers for its two SIM cards?
> 
> It's not SIM cards or tablets that need IMEI numbers, it's GSM telephones.
> And even a dual-SIM telephone needs only one IMEI. HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp

My dual SIM phablet has an IMEI for each SIM.

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Chris Green
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#21669

cl@isbd.net wrote:
> tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:09:03 +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
> > 
> > > and what about a tablet (like the one I bought a couple of years
> > > ago) that had no IMEI numbers for its two SIM cards?
> > 
> > It's not SIM cards or tablets that need IMEI numbers, it's GSM telephones.
> > And even a dual-SIM telephone needs only one IMEI. HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp
> 
> My dual SIM phablet has an IMEI for each SIM.

  That's great! That means if one IMEI says the phone is stolen, you can
still continue to use the other half-a-phone!

  But seriously, as tlvp says, a dual-SIM phone *needs* only one IMEI,
but using 2 probably isn't a problem, as long as they identify the same
unique phone.

  In any case, whatever you do, don't *change* either IMEI, or the
nospam-police will be down on you like a ton of bricks!

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