Cellular Phone Snatching No More!
Year 2011 is a memorable year for me. Not just because of happy moments but also because of disappointing scenarios. How many of us experienced cell phone snatching? I am pretty sure, many of us. Last June 2011, I lost my Samsung Corby, not so expensive but is so valuable to me. I left it in our counter table in our Internet Café. After 2-3 minutes, it was gone!
Mobile or cellular phone can be snatched from any person, anywhere and at any time where the snatcher is sure of his success and has a safe passage to escape. The people most vulnerable to cell phone snatching are those who travel alone in car, motorbike riders and pedestrians on the streets or in the busy markets. People generally don't dare to resist with the cell phone snatcher for fear of being killed by him and give up easily. This goes in favor of the snatchers as such the crime of cell phone snatching is spreading rapidly. So far the police have not been able to prevent this crime, which is their primary responsibility. Similarly the government has also not paid any attention to this menace. The citizens have therefore started feeling insecure while carrying their cell phone. (http://ausaf.org/article_30.htm)
I happened to read an article on how to make cellphone snatching unprofitable (http://mobilityph.blogspot.com/2007/03/making-cellphone-snatching-unprofitable.html). According to the article, the owner can report his stolen phone to the National Telecommunications Commission. The NTC will just ask to formally file with them an affidavit of loss stating there the serial number and model of the phone and other relevant information. By doing this, the NTC can block the signal of the cellphone even if the sim is replaced rendering the phone useless to any "subsequent possessor".
Last week, my friend asked me to accompany her to the market to have her cell phone fixed. I was shocked because I saw the personnel of that unauthorized repair shop removed a certain "part" of an old cell phone and replaced it on my friend's broken cell phone. This gave me an idea that the old cell phone, where the personnel got the part, may be stolen. This means that even if the owner would have had the signal blocked by NTC, cell phone snatching may still be profitable via selling its useful parts.
I suggest that cell phone manufacturers should have a certain option (maybe a press-button will do) for the buyers to have their cell phones deactivated if were snatched. Totally shut down meaning each part will be useless but of course if given back to the owner, it also has the option to be revived. This will definitely lessen incidents of cell phone snatching. < IV, the parts of a CP are generic; they could not be deactivated. Pls ask Gil) 3
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