There is one flaw with the IMEI ban: people will eventually buy a new phone. Plus creating a new email is a trivial matter. The only thing they lose is all that time they spent levelling and cash spent on platinum. On top of that, many people already have a phone and a tablet. The way things are going, it looks like operating systems like Android and iOS will completely supplant the traditional feature phones in a few years, even to people who buy budget phones.

The point is that changing your IMEI is not necessary. There other ways to do it.








Edit: Maybe we should create a new thread and move this discussion to another thread. It is going off-topic.