I would say that Ujanja more of discourages phone theft (and might prevent it in the long term) than preventing phone theft in the short term.
Basically it hinges on phone thieves not seeing it worth flashing a phone's ROM (which is illegal in the ICT act/bill), where I believe the Ujanja app is stored.
If someone tries to use the stolen phone, the true owner will get a text message and the true owner will also know the new number that has been put on the phone and thus can contact the 'new' buyer.
Since one needs ID to buy a SIM card, the original owner is more confident of reporting the new number to the police and records can trace the ID of the 'new' buyer. Now, the 'new' buyer is likely guilty of possessing stolen property and it's in his/her best interest to return the phone to the original owner before the issue goes to the authorities.
The issue here is with the efficiency of the police, sadly.
I think Ujanja needs to be more intergrated with the police than a product of a private company's efforts to phone theft solution. EADH ofcourse need to make their money.
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--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Theus Owicho <owichot@gmail.com> wrote:
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