Electronic and Postal Communications (Central Equipment Identification
Register)
G.N. No. 417 (contd)
“blacklisting” means to render a mobile telephone inactive
by any mobile cellular operator, and to deliberately
disable any access which any person in control of the
said mobile telephone may have, to any of the
network services licensees;
“Call Data Records” “in its abbreviation CDR” means
subscribers records with detailed call history for a
specific period;
“Central Equipment Identification Register” “in its
abbreviation CEIR” means a shared electronic
database of all Equipment Identification Registers of
all network service licensees, which holds unique
pairs of phone numbers and IMEIs or ESNs in form of
three lists, namely white list, black list and grey
list;
“colour lists” means white, grey and black lists;
“data” means the information to be shared between the CEIR
and the network service licensees on IMEI
information of stolen or lost equipment;
“equipment” means mobile telephone as identified uniquely
by its IMEI or ESNs;
“Equipment Identification Register” “in its abbreviation EIR”
means an electronic database which holds unique
pairs of phone numbers and IMEIs or ESNs in form of
three lists white list, black list and grey list as
available within the infrustructure of the network
service licensee;
“Electronic Serial Number” “in its abbreviation ESN” means
a unique code or number used by electronic
communications network to identify an individual
electronic communications equipment;
“electronic communication” means radio communication or,
as appropriate, the communication of information in
the form of the electronic speech or other sound, data,
text or images, by means of guided and unguided
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