Many blacklisted dual-SIM smartphones are still active on South African mobile networks, Cellucity owner Sean Joffe told MyBroadband.
“In this case, the device had been blacklisted, but the customer was using the device with the SIM card placed in the ‘free’ second SIM slot,” Joffe said. As the number of devices with dual-SIM capability increases, it presents bad actors with lucrative opportunities. MTN corporate affairs executive Jacqui O’Sullivan said both IMEIs of dual-SIM devices get blocked as part of blacklisting a smartphone on MTN’s network.“As part of the Cell C blacklisting process and to mitigate the loophole which was identified a couple of years back, … we confirm if the phone has a dual SIM and blacklist both IMEIs,” Cell C chief operating officer Andre Ittmann said.
“While all local networks share blacklisting information, it can take weeks for blacklisting to be processed across the different networks,” Joffe said. Joffe explained that rendering a device completely useless can only be done by activating its operating system’s remote locking and factory reset features.
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