Etisalat :No service for those using fake mobiles

UAE telecommunication services providers — etisalat and du will suspend all services to mobile phone subscribers using counterfeit handsets with effect from January 1, 2012, it was announced at a news conference here yesterday. "Users of fake devices will be contacted by their service providers and all phones that are not type approved will be disconnected from all telecom services, including calls, texts and internet," said the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) in a statement. "We want the UAE to be clean of fake handsets — the operators have been told," TRA Director General Mohammad Nasser Al Ganem told reporters. Al Ganem said as many as 70,000 fake handsets have been identified by the two telecommunication services providers, which fall short on the minimum quality standards.