Thread: Operator Device Identification - eg, T-Mobile US recognizing it and cutting the $10/mo data plan
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Graham Cobb is offline Graham Cobb
2011-02-22 , 22:11
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Originally Posted by youngcalihottie View Post
exactly. they only have a db of branded phones. but they could guess youre using a smartphone based on usage. although they cant prove it by imei.
It seems the US operators can't be bothered to configure information about phones they don't sell into whatever rules they have in place.

But IMEI's aren't exactly secret -- I would be surprised if the network ops people don't have a database that tells them that your phone is an N900 (maybe down to the week it was built). But they don't care (unless they suddenly start seeing that various faults or non-zero clearing codes start correlating with particular model IDs).