{"id":5841,"date":"2012-12-12T23:07:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2012-12-12T23:07:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:37:34","slug":"dot-seeks-new-technology-to-track-lost-mobile-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/dot-seeks-new-technology-to-track-lost-mobile-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT seeks new technology to track lost Mobile Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecom (DoT) is likely to launch a pilot project which will help locating lost phones or cloned phones on real time basis.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.gov.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">DoT<\/a> is planning to use the technology that has been developed by &#8216;Telcordia Technologies&#8217; (formerly known as Bell Communications Research, Inc &#8211; a telecommunication research and development company) to <strong>track lost mobile phones in real time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reports from <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/news-by-industry\/telecom\/dot-for-trial-runs-of-tech-to-locate-mobiles-in-real-time\/articleshow\/17481304.cms\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Times<\/a>, the proposal was put forward by MNP Interconnection Telecom Solution (MITS), one of the companies that is working on mobile number portability scheme, of deploying Central Device Information Registry (CDIR). Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar has asked the DoT officials to start working on the proposal. Trials will be conducted first before launching the full-scale project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technology seems &#8220;worthwhile&#8221; to top DoT officials and the Secretary is of the view that trials can be conducted at no cost to the government to assess the utility of the proposal,\u201d &#8211; Economic Times\u00a0quotes.<\/p>\n<p>The report also says that, stakeholders in MNP Interconnection, &#8216;Telcordia Technologies&#8217; developed the Central Device Information Registry (CDIR) technology which consolidates real time and non-real time. The technology will help in <strong>tracking lost or stolen mobile phones in real time and also helps to prevent counterfeiting.<\/strong> Cloning of mobile phones can also be detected using this technique. Before starting the trial run of this technology, the department of telecom is working to put proper conditions so that there is no misuse of data gathered by MITS during the pilot project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Image Courtesy:\u00a0techarta.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecom (DoT) is likely to launch a pilot project which will help locating lost phones or cloned phones on real time basis. The DoT is planning to use the technology that has been developed by &#8216;Telcordia Technologies&#8217; (formerly known as Bell Communications Research, Inc &#8211; a telecommunication research and development company) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[192,448],"class_list":["post-5841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-national","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}