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Message: <blockquote data-quote="disamannar" data-source="post: 8678541" data-attributes="member: 257357">International Mobile Equipment Identity or IMEI number is a unique  number for every GSM, WCDMA and iDEN mobile phone as well as some  satellite phones. Mobile phones have a IMEI number associated with them which you must  note down at some secret location. The point that makes these IMEI  numbers very important is that with the help of IMEI number you can  impose a ban on your stolen or lost mobile phone.<img src="http://virgintech.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/phone_imei.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />If you have IMEI no of your stolen phone then report it to your local  operator to block the device. This makes your network provider to put  your phone’s IMEI no in a shared database called as an Equipment Identity Register (EIR) which  reduces the threats of theft of handsets by enabling individual  operators to prevent the use of stolen handsets in their own network. Now to make the stolen phone inaccessible in other networks (service providers) also, your IMEI no is transferred to Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR)   which is a database of the IMEI numbers of blacklisted handsets. Once  the device number is listed on CEIR, it wouldn’t work with any of the  network provider.</blockquote>

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