Some of those "not genuine" phones do not meet safety requirements and so are harmful to the user.
So I think this IMEI implant is such a bad idea.
Besides, did I not hear something to the effect that the govt will compensate those who are affected? I don't know what compensate means in this context though, and I am not even sure this wasn't just a rumor.
As the deadline for switching off the so called fake phones approaches , i feel for the ordinary folks affected .India has worked this path before in Nov 2009 , when faced with the similar predicament they set up centres for the 20million affected subscribers to implant genuine IMEI to the handsets @ a small fee , If only we can do that in Kenya , then our regulator up their game ,We can save ordinary Kenyans the agony of buying new handsets.
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