Tehran, Dec 24, Taliya News – Head of MCCI’s Board of Directors said here Tuesday due to lowered SIM card prices incentives for copying them are very low.
Seyyed Ali Alavian added in an interview with ILNA, “In foreign countries due to very low prices for SIM cards there is no incentive for such offenses, while in Iran, too, the fraud seems very unlikely, unless someone would do so a hobby and out of curiosity.”
On hacked Internet sites, too, he said, “The weak spots of any system are spotted after the passage of a while, through which they can be attacked, but the solutions for such problems, too, are figured out in due time.”
Focusing back on SIM card copying problem, he said, “This is an old phenomenon dating back to the years before 2001 in Iran, but currently we have no problem with out new SIM cards, thanks to their high level security system.”
Head of MCCI’s Board of Directors said that his affiliated supervising organ has still received no report about any copied SIM card on TCI system.
Alavian said it was necessary to ask all owners of network’s old SIM cards to refer to service stations, reiterating, “Since only one SIM card of all copied cards can be registered at the network the benefit of the users cannot be very much.”
Alavian said that selling of such copier machines in the market is illegal, adding, “All present SIM cards in the network have special codes, using which they are registered and identified if necessary, and therefore, if one card is used in two or more spots it can be easily identified through the system.”