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Dhaka: BTRC has entered into an agreement with a local company that offers soft solutions internationally to ensure national security and discourage the sale, import or trade of illegal and counterfeit mobile phones.
As a result, BTRC officials believe mobile phone security provisions and government revenue will increase.
The agreement was signed with Synesis IT, the country’s IT service provider, at the BTRC building on Wednesday (November 25).
According to the BTRC, the contracting company Synesis IT will complete the process of supplying, installing and launching the operating hardware and software by March 2021.
Speaking to officials, it emerged that around 140 million IMEI numbers have been added to BTRC’s NOC Automation and IMEI Database (NAID) system so far. The IMEI of the NAID system, the EIR of the mobile operator and the central NEIR at the national level established in BTRC will act as an integrated system.
The NEIR system will connect directly to the respective EIR of each mobile operator. Customers’ mobile phones will be automatically registered and used via the mobile network. NEIR will make an immediate decision on mobile phone access by verifying the validity of all phones.
The receipt of the purchase through the NEIR web portal is subject to verification at the customer’s request of the phone brought from abroad and the phones that arrived in the country as a gift will be activated in NEIR in light of the Commission’s decision subject to verification and selection based on sufficient evidence. A guide has already been prepared on February 11 to operate the EIR system.
A BTRC official said that the information of all mobile phones used in the network of different mobile operators before August 1, 2019 and legally imported after August 1, 2019 and produced locally or assembled in the country is stored in BTRC .
BTRC (Spectrum) CEO Brigadier General M Shahidul Alam said phones that are illegal or imported from abroad can be operated with the permission of BTRC by showing valid documents later. However, sets received repeatedly as gifts by the same person will not be accepted.
Regarding the set of the same IMEI number, BTRC said that the list of these will be active for a certain period of time. Then the decision will be made under the direction of the government.
As for the old sets, BTRC said, we will verify and activate them in our system.
To discourage national security, the sale / import and marketing of illegal and counterfeit mobile phones, BTRC President Md. Zahurul Haque and Spectrum Brigade General Director General. The agreement was signed in the presence of Shahidul Alam. At that time, the director of the commission’s wave management department, Lt. Colonel Md. Faisal and Sohrab Ahmed Chowdhury, Managing Director of Synesis IT, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organizations.
The BTRC president said that once the NEIR system is completed, the government will earn an additional income of around Tk 4,000 crore every year.
Bangladesh time: 2155 hours, November 25, 2020
MIH / AA
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