DoT working on real time mobile tracking soln

Tracking lost or cloned mobile phones on real times basis can soon be a reality in India.

According to reports, the Government is considering a thinking on a is likely to launch a pilot project using the new technology developed by Telecordia.

The CDIR developed by Telecordia, stakeholder in MNP Interconnection, consolidates real-time and non-real time to address traditional mobile device challenges such as mobile theft, invalid device blocking, counterfeiting and cloning detection.

ET reports that DoT secretary R Chandrashekhar having directed officials on deploying a Central Device Information Registry (CDIR) for the real time tracking. The proposal for the project is repoted to be made by MNP Interconnection Telecom Solution, one of the companies that is working on mobile number portability scheme.