I talked about Hutch Mumbai assigning the same number to two simcards some days back. It was a case of forgery, the infamous “mobile cloning” (that had been a muse of quite a few news stories some months back) where all the calls made from the other card were being debited from my friend’s account.

But one thing about the whole episode stunned me:

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Jayvee of Cellphone9 recently posted about lighter side of 3G joking about how it will make harder for husbands to lie to their wives about their location.Though this one was in good humour I recalled having read about some IITian having created a cellphone tracking technology where one can keep track of exact location of  any other cellphone, and this one did not need 3G either it was a network-operator sided technology and can be used simply via SMS. (link to the article)

In fact Airtel had stated at the time that they were adopting this technology and that things were in place. That was more than a year back and there has been no further word on this from either Airtel or Mobiance Technology (the company formed by those IIT guys). However a visit on Mobiance Website throws a light to the fact that this product is already being used in ‘corporate versions’ for fleet & workforce tracking and that ‘consumer version’ of these products are also available.

Let’s first talk about the ‘corporate version’..

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I know it’s unbelievable, but you better belive it. I witnessed it myself.

A good friend of mine recently found her friends acting cold with her and herself receiving lot of wrong numbers. She could not understand why until someone complained to her about she rejecting the calls and not replying to SMS messages.

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