The global mobile phone industry is trying to rein in the rapid worldwide spread of illegitimate handsets by introducing a stricter regime for the allocation of handset identification numbers.
The move comes as unlicensed Chinese handset manufacturers have started flooding the world market with exports in a competitive threat to global mobile phone brands.
The GSM Association, a group of operators and equipment makers involved with the GSM mobile standard, used mostly in Europe, has started charging handset makers for international mobile equipment identity, or IMEI, numbers.
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