Illegal mobile phones to be blocked automatically from July 1: BTRC
Sun Online Desk 8th January, 2021 09:51:43
All the illegal, clone, and fake mobile phone handsets will be automatically blocked from networks starting from July 1.
Shyam Sunder Sikder, chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), said this on Thursday during a press conference in the capital.
“The illegal handsets will be blocked from July 1, but we will not disconnect the ones which are in use now,” he said.
“However, all the new mobile phones will have to be registered before reaching the market.”
“BTRC plans to launch National Equipment Identification Registrar (NEIR) on July 1 this year. No illegal handsets will be allowed to be used in the country’s telecom network after that,” the BTRC chairman said.