Firm Develops Tracker For Stolen Phones

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Phone tracker: Niger wants all sim cards registered

An Information Technology firm, TracknShield Limited, has developed a mobile phone anti-theft solution to combat phone theft in the country.

The Managing Director, TracknShield Limited, Mr Abu Grema, while unveiling the product in Lagos, said, the mobile phone tracking application offered an easy-to-use solution to the problems associated with mobile phone theft and loss with the possibility of recovering such phones.

He further stressed that once installed on a mobile phone, the Tracknshield would make it possible for the owner of the phone to trace its whereabouts through a text message in the event that the phone was lost. Grema added that even if the SIM card in the phone was removed, the software would also make it possible for the phone to be traced and also prevent a new SIM card from working with the stolen or lost phone.

Explaining the motivation behind the new application, he said it was introduced as a result of the increasing importance of mobile phones to people today.

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He stated that due to their growing sophistication, phones had now become the platforms on which many users transacted a lot of businesses such as funds transfer, noting that this made it very important for people to protect phones and data contained therein.

Grema noted that the solution was necessary as the SIM card registration exercise that government introduced in Nigeria and many other African countries had not adequately addressed the problems of identity theft that might result from stolen phones.

—Henry Ojelu

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