According to a Times of India report,
Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar has directed the officials concerned
to start working on the proposals made by MNP Interconnection Telecom
Solution of installing Central Device Information Registry (CDIR). MNP
Interconnection is one of the companies that is working with the
government on Mobile Number Portability (MNP) scheme.
“The technology seems "worthwhile" to top DoT
officials and the Secretary is of the view that trials can be conducted
at no cost to the government to assess the utility of the proposal,”
TOI quotes sources as saying.
According to the report, Telecordia,
stakeholders in MNP Interconnection, has developed the CDIR, the
technology that consolidates real time and non-real time. The technology
is said to resolve the issue of tracking lost/stolen mobile phones and
also help in invalid device blocking, counterfeiting and cloning
detection.
Before running the trial, the department
of telecom is making sure that there's no misuse of data gathered by
MITS during the pilot project.
