In the first quarter of 2005, Vodafone will become the first mobile operator in the Netherlands to be able to permanently ban stolen phones of its customers on Vodafone's mobile networks. According to Dutch police records, 240,000 mobile phones are stolen per year, and provided an initiative by the country's Minister of Justice is implemented, changing a handset's unique registration (IMEI) number will be made illegal.
In turn, this will enable Vodafone Netherlands to implement Vodafone's international registration of stolen mobile phones, the Equipment Identity Register (EIR), already in place in 11 Vodafone countries and 5 partner networks. Drawing on the EIR, stolen handsets are forever banned from use on Vodafone's mobile networks, in line with policies among the majority of European carriers who coordinate their efforts through an international database of stolen phones - the GSM Association's Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR).
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