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New move to combat phone thefts
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I do hope that they have better luck with preventing huge charges on stolen mobile devices than we have had here in the US.
Around 80% of mobile phones will be blocked on all five UK networks within 48 hours of being reported stolen in future, industry leaders have pledged.
The pledge is part of a charter aimed at reducing mobile phone crime launched by the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum (MICAF) and phone networks.
Home Secretary John Reid welcomed the move and pledged £1.35m in funding for a specialist national phone crime unit.
Jack Wraith, who chairs the MICAF, said networks had been made “accountable”…. Source: BBC