No more gifted foreign smartphones to Cuba?

Interesting way to lock up the stolen phone for sale on the street business. Hopefully that's all this achieves!

Not sure if this is related to same subject...
A phone I bought in Vancouver,left in October, last years model, and purchased in a London Drugs , was blocked after several months of use in Cuba. Apparently there were 12 phones with same IMEI #
Never got a good explanation.

Someone in Cuba got a hold of that phones IMEI, and used it to change the number on a bunch of stolen or lost phones. there would have been little reason to do that in Cuba. Now that trick doesn't work anymore.

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