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Reply to: by jonshipman

Well right now it is, what people are saying is that we should have a model where we buy phones outside of the carriers and they wouldn’t necessarily have those in a db.

Though what IS in place is if you have two IMEIs that are the same connect to the same network, that IMEI is blocked.

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