Cellular and vending robbery without any consequence is not a new practice in the Dominican Republic. Since 15 years ago, the authorities and telephone companies have announced various actions to prevent this from happening.
One of the major problems facing the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) is the number of dealers and people who are active in cellular and vending chips in the Ley of Telecommunications, 153-98.
A Mitad of 2006 the Indotel anunció que había autorizado and 92 dealers for revender services or telecomunicaciones, indicating that only in the first semester of 2005 738 878 series of robotic and / or cellular cells were reported, lamenting the reporting of robots to the Center for Assistance to Users (CAU).
In addition, the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications issues Resolution number 092-02, which controls mechanisms for detectors, prevents and sanctions the activation of mobile phones as its object of extraction or extraction.
This provision is available to mobile service providers, their representatives, sales agents, distributors or any person authorized to commercialize these services, no mobile phone activation may be activated if they are reported as additional or unsupervised.
This is the sum that on different occasions the Indotel and the Department of Crime and Higher Technology Investigation (DICAT) of the National Police are using various cellular tenses that are dedicated to ” blank cellular with negative series, cambam ‘: International mobile equipment identity and active models.
Another media announced by the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications in 2014, was banning the sale of chips without presenting the coin.
In 2015, the Indotel and its telephone companies, in conjunction with the Global Ecosystem Movement Association (GSMA), agreed to avoid robotic telephones being activated.
The agreement indicates that mobile operators will be connected to the GSMA robotic team data base, in order to exchange the identification numbers of the IMEI devices and therefore block the activation of announced teams in other speeches.
In 2016 and before the launch of mobile phone robots, the Indotel announced 8 media that included: Enter the data of the mobile team, such as the SIM card pin and IMEI; when it is transit by the calls must guard the mobile team in a place where it is less visible; use the free manuscripts (altavoz, audífonos) when the need arises to contest some llamada.
Additionally, make copies of security information on the device; protect the team with counterattacks; install the application or raster program, in case of robbery or loss report the mobile team to the service provider. Asi logra disables the option to realize and receive calls and change access restrictions.
In February 2017 and in conjunction with the launch of its new portal, the Indotel, informed that it has an application for the citizens to consult mobile phones and side robots. The device is located on its page and functions writing the IMEI of the cells. (https://gsma.indotel.gob.do/respuesta-de-imei/).
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For February 6, 2021, the Indotel announced that service providers will install equipment for the people who are activating a cellular, such as their photographs and the collocation of their dactyls.
The new president of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications, Nelson Arroyo, informs Listín Diario that various resolutions are being sent to a register of cellular IMEIs at the moment they are activated, in order to determine that they have been robbed.