Complain at [email protected] and tell them you aren't getting any response from DIRBS team. They're supposed to approve the second IMEI for free, but make sure to mention both of them in the email.
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[MENTION=42544]murtaza12[/MENTION] I Know kinda off topic here but I was wondering if I could get my hands on PTA blocked phones in Karachi for cheap since they are blocked now just to mess around with them/ use them as a internet device/ music and portable gaming.. not a bad idea huh?
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Do you have any experience with them? I mean how long do they take to respond. I got an email back on Saturday that complaint has been noted and will be worked according to SOP. Is there any way to track progress or result of complaint.
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No way to track progress of email complaints.
Sometimes they don't even respond, but the complaint does get resolved.
Just wait it out because technically today is 1st working day after Eid, and all lazy inefficient PTA employees are returning to office today, and because this whole DIRBS thing is so poorly implemented, they have tons of complaints regarding the same issue.
You can email them again in 1 week if it isn't resolved.
Yes you can do that. A blocked phone will be basically a sim-less phone, with all other functionality intact. You can even make/recieve calls via apps like whatsapp via wifi.
I don't think you'll find someone selling a stock of blocked phones. If you look around the market, you'll find individual blocked phones for sale which may or may not be attractively priced.
You see, these phones aren't blocked immediately. A phone has to be active on Pak network for it to get a 2 month expiry period (at least theoretically), after which it is supposed to get blocked. Most shopkeepers don't test SIM functionality, hence most of the kit phones remain free from blockage.
They replied and asked for IMEI. After that they are not replying to email. Do you have any email address for escalation.
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Nope. Just keep waiting.
After the mass passport data abuses and removal of 1 free passport rule, their email inbox must be filling up every day.
Not confirmed by PTA yet, but news about that is spreading like wildfire on Facebook and news channels.
Aslam o Alaikum,
A friend of mine has received a mobile as a gift from a family friend. He has passport number of his friend. but whenever I try to register the mobile it says that imei is already in the system. When I checked mobile imei on dirbs, it is saying that imei will be blocked by 24 June. Please help me in this regard.
Thanks.
A friend of mine has received a mobile as a gift from a family friend. He has passport number of his friend. but whenever I try to register the mobile it says that imei is already in the system. When I checked mobile imei on dirbs, it is saying that imei will be blocked by 24 June. Please help me in this regard.
Thanks.
If you are in Lahore, Islamabad or Karachi, visit PTA office with original passport, the device and it's original IMEI matched box. They will register it for you.
do you mean passport number is already in the system or imei number is already in the system? if it's the latter then two interfaces to the same system are giving you contradictory data which is just sheer incompetence of PTA. if it's the former then that means your friend is the victim of identity theft. since travellers are allowed to register one phone for free travel agents, pia insiders and airport insiders have been registering smuggled phones in the names of travellers.
wow this is quite the cluster fuck. you can always trust pakistanis to create buggy computer systems.
did they not test it? no pilot program or beta testing? fucking joke!
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