The Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has been implementing the Mobile Device Management System (MDMS) since July 16, 2021. Although the NTA has not been able to fully implement it recently, it has implemented this system in the first phase to prevent illegal mobiles from entering from abroad.
The Telecommunications Authority of Nepal (NTA) had handed over the bill to a Malaysian company at a cost of about Rs 1 billion to be implemented in June 2019.
However, the weakness of the NTA was pushed back two years. NEA has stated that even if MDMS is implemented, the mobile currently used by the users will not be switched off.
In particular, the MDM system makes it difficult to use tax system fraudulent, duplicated, and stolen mobile telecommunications services. NTA has constructed a building at Chabahil to house the software and hardware of MDMS.
According to the NTA, software blacklists legal mobiles and blacklists illegal ones. The NTA says it will take some time to complete the hardware.
How does MDMS work?
Mobile Device Management System (MDMS) is a system that regulates mobiles. Mobiles inside and outside Nepal have access to this system.
The system, which will be implemented from July 16, will link MDMS software in Nepal to the same GSMA system, the NTA said. Who can easily find out if the mobile is registered or not? The unregistered mobile is blacklisted.
Since the devices identified by MDMS are also affiliated with telecommunication companies, they are also linked with these companies. Access to MDMS is also given to the Customs Department of Nepal.
The customs will link the access of the mobile entering Nepal to the MDMS and also the registration process. In this way, after getting MDMS in the access of customs and service delivery, it is easy to put it in illegal mobile, blacklist, or white list.
Rumors have spread in Nepal that unregistered mobile phones will be shut down. But, in reality, the current mobile sets do not shut down. Unregistered mobiles will not work only after MDMS is implemented, but only after they come under registration.
Nepalis living abroad have been sending mobile phones to their relatives or bringing them themselves. As mobile phones and laptops are cheaper abroad than in Nepal, they bring gifts to their families from abroad.
There has been a lot of interest in whether such mobiles can work or not. In particular, the Telecommunication Authority of Nepal will bring in the process of registration of gifts and mobiles sent from abroad before the implementation of MDMS.
However, he has already said that he will not turn off the phones that have already arrived in Nepal.
The authority will not stop the mobiles that are still in operation, 'he said, adding,' Before the implementation of MDMS, there is no plan to shut down the mobiles entering Nepal from any channel, but a time period will be fixed for the registration process.
The NTA assists in the registration process in accordance with the guidelines of the Department of Customs. NTA will bring the mobiles from abroad to the white list by giving a certain time, but it will not be made.
However, after the implementation of MDMS, the illegal entry of mobiles from the border will be stopped completely.
Even though this system has been implemented, the service recipients do not have to rush and the service recipient-friendly MDMS system will be more, the authority said.
In particular, MDMS works to control illegal mobiles, identify lost mobiles and expedite the IMEI mobile registration process.
According to the NTA, users who purchase a mobile phone with a VAT bill do not have to register with IMEI.
Mobile phones smuggled from the border are illegal. Similarly, if you have not paid VAT on the new mobile you are using after July 16 and have not taken the paid VAT bill, it will be considered as an invalid mobile.
