ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has started to blocknearly 3 million smartphones and feature phones deemed illegal.
As per PTA records, there are as many as 2.8 million smuggled ornon-custom- paid smartphones in the country, a source familiar with thematter told ProPakistani.
According to the source, these phones will be blocked in several phases,and that the process has already started on 30th April.
The source further stated that the phones on the block list are the oneswhich were not registered with the Device Identification Registration andBlocking System (DIRBS) despite multiple extensions in the deadline.
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It mainly includes handsets which were smuggled into the country after thesecond deadline was announced by PTA (5th January 2019) and were meant tobe blocked in case of non-compliance.
