Starting from mid September this year there has been entry of fake phones on the market in east and Central Africa. According to research I tentatively conducted on the boarders of DRC, Rwanda, Tanzania and one report finding from a friend in Burundi, a group of phones with the "TYPE ALLOCATION CODE" of 35551517.....All the phone with this TAC are fake. I have been wondering if BABT(British approval board for telecommunications) whose identifying number 35 is mostly used by phones made in China and Middle Eas, is aware of such fake phones using their identification number!
Chinese companies have gone an extra mile in the production of fake electronic products. It is worth here to note that, I do not mean that all products from China are fake! The issue of these fake phones on African markets are as result of a number of pronounced factors! !
One is corruption, most quality controlling organizations in Africa connive with some of the exporting companies to allow such fake products on our markets. This is very dangerous to the environment. Most of these phone run on fake micro chips especially spreadtrum which cannot operate for a very long time, these phones also are with weak PCBs, and in most cases such phones usually do not last for more than 3months without technical issues. Am actually worried for in the next 10years,African governments will again be yearning for loans to combat environmental hazards resulting from massive dumps of these fake electronic products.
There is another problem with chinese electronic manufacturing companies, they seem to produce few genuine products, and then later flood the markets with apparent similar but fake products so as to cut the cost of production. I think in China, there are other small companies that seem to copy and imitate other technology giants, and since they cannot afford market and production terms and conditions, they simply manufacture cheap products,using cheap resources .
In Uganda, I can extend my appreciation to UCC for setting up a link for testing whether ones product is fake!but it is better for UCC to get tough and force all phone exporting and importing companies to first test all their products.
https://www.ucc.co.ug/imei.php
Now you've to look at this example... This phone in the picture below has an IMEI of another different phone model which is an itel2090 yet for it is another model
These are phones owned by innocent citizens, they do know!!! So am warning UCC not to use this information to block their IMEIs, actually it is this UCC that should sit with UNBS to solve this and have them out of market ..!!!stop this bribery and help citizens, how do you allow such products on market, do you know the repercussions behind all these fake products ! For God and my country
Chinese companies have gone an extra mile in the production of fake electronic products. It is worth here to note that, I do not mean that all products from China are fake! The issue of these fake phones on African markets are as result of a number of pronounced factors! !
One is corruption, most quality controlling organizations in Africa connive with some of the exporting companies to allow such fake products on our markets. This is very dangerous to the environment. Most of these phone run on fake micro chips especially spreadtrum which cannot operate for a very long time, these phones also are with weak PCBs, and in most cases such phones usually do not last for more than 3months without technical issues. Am actually worried for in the next 10years,African governments will again be yearning for loans to combat environmental hazards resulting from massive dumps of these fake electronic products.
There is another problem with chinese electronic manufacturing companies, they seem to produce few genuine products, and then later flood the markets with apparent similar but fake products so as to cut the cost of production. I think in China, there are other small companies that seem to copy and imitate other technology giants, and since they cannot afford market and production terms and conditions, they simply manufacture cheap products,using cheap resources .
In Uganda, I can extend my appreciation to UCC for setting up a link for testing whether ones product is fake!but it is better for UCC to get tough and force all phone exporting and importing companies to first test all their products.
https://www.ucc.co.ug/imei.php
Now you've to look at this example... This phone in the picture below has an IMEI of another different phone model which is an itel2090 yet for it is another model
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