Airwide Offers AirGuard EIR Soln To Help Operators Meet Govt Directive

Airwide Solutions, a provider of mobile messaging and mobile Internet infrastructure, applications and solutions, has announced that the company's AirGuard EIR solution is immediately available to help operators meet the Indian government's recently issued directive for installation of Equipment Identity Register (EIR) technology well within the mandated three-month timeframe.

In the interest of national security, the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) branch of the Indian government recently issued a directive that telecom companies must block calls made from handsets, which do not have valid and traceable equipment identity numbers. To do so, mobile operators have three months to set up and activate EIRs, which contain a database of all valid mobile equipment on the network, inventoried by their International Mobile Equipment Identification (IMEI) number. Using an EIR, mobile operators will be able to track and log all valid equipment and block handsets with invalid or missing IMEIs from operating on the network.

AirGuard EIR layers the value-added benefit of enhanced anti-fraud capabilities with effective handset anti-theft, which enables operators to prevent stolen or fraudulent handsets from working on their network within seconds of detection.