Though I really can't see any legitimate reason to edit the IMEI of any cell phone I think the impact of people doing so will be limited. AFAIK a large number of (european) operators no longer (or never has) search the EIR (equipment identity register) - a central register in Ireland which should prevent phones stolen in one country from being used in another.
Furthermore as cloning IMEIs of legitimate phones is quite common in some countries even operators tha does check the EIR may experience problems:
In one case a danish operator had to give up registering a specific IMEI in the EIR as this would block several hundred cloned phones in Spain.
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I guess this must be an error but Netcraft shows the site as running on Linux...?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=techpreSo wattage (power) is irrelevant?
Which would you rather be near - a 1 mW gamma ray emitter or a 100 W gamma ray emitter??
Though I really can't see any legitimate reason to edit the IMEI of any cell phone I think the impact of people doing so will be limited. AFAIK a large number of (european) operators no longer (or never has) search the EIR (equipment identity register) - a central register in Ireland which should prevent phones stolen in one country from being used in another.
Furthermore as cloning IMEIs of legitimate phones is quite common in some countries even operators tha does check the EIR may experience problems:
In one case a danish operator had to give up registering a specific IMEI in the EIR as this would block several hundred cloned phones in Spain.