MTNL offers Lost Mobile Tracking System

NI Wire

New Delhi

Wed, 16 Apr 2008: 

Customer has become valuable assets of various service providers and a bid to give the customer something they had wished for; the telecom service provider, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited on April 15 offered its customer Lost Mobile Tracking System(LMTS).

LMTS is softwa which can be downloaded and install for free by the user and is developed by Mumbai based Micro- Technologies.

One of the representative of Micro- Technologies said, “The software can be downloaded for free from MTNL through GPRS and can be installed on almost 250 models of mobile phones.”

International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number of the phone is stored after installing the software; IMEI is a unique number that identifies each mobile phone, as well as the SIM (subscriber identity module) card number being used by the customer.

After installation of the software a user has to provide an alternate phone number and email address and if the mobile is stolen and the SIM card is replaced with another, the software sends and e-mail to the customer about the whereabouts of the phone along with the phone number of the new user.

This magic comes only for Rs 30 to the user of MTNL services.

P Sekhar, MD of Micro Technologies said, “We will be providing upgrades to the software which will allow users to delete the contents of their inbox from the stolen phone.”

Executive Director of MTNL J Gopal said, “We expect to provide the service in the next month. The required software will be provided by us and will allow users to watch live video on their phones.”

The system will help user to track the lost mobile and will prove helpful for those who lose their mobile. Probably, it will help keeping the mobile theft at bay.