Check imei number

Now you can check the validity of your mobile imei number. You can go to http://www.imeinumber.com/ and check whether your imei number is fake or genuine.
It is a good tool, and it gives instant results.

India makes imei number mandatory for mobiles

It is now mandatory to have imei number for all mobile phones in india. This has been made compulsory by trai, the indian govt agency which controls and monitors the mobile telephony in india.
This has been done so as to identify every mobile phone in india, keeping in mind the the fact that the mobile phones that so not have imei number are a security threat.
Under the new guidelines, all mobile phones must have valid imei numbers and the mobiles that do not have these will be disconnected from the 30th of nov, 2009.

imei number

IMEI Number is a unique number which is issued to every new mobile phone. It is a fifteen digit number, and this imei number is unique to every mobile. One can easily find the  imei number of a mobile wither by pressing *#06# or by lookin under the battery. It is a number which is quniue to every gsm mobile.
The imei number is a permananet number, but is it used only to establish the identity of a device. It does not provide for the identification of the subscriber.
since imei number is unique to every mobile, so it is used to identify stolen mobiles.