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Re:13,500 Vivo Smartphones found running on same IMEI number by stefan_ on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:37PM (#23440868)
It's like the MAC address of your smartphone WiFi radio. Yes, you'll get problems if there are two identical ones in the same cell, but in practice randomizing the MAC works perfectly fine.
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Re:13,500 Vivo Smartphones found running on same IMEI number by yuubi on Saturday June 06, 2020 @02:07PM (#23441097)
Except not. The MAC-layer identity in LTE is the RNTI, which is temporarily assigned by each cell before the mobile transmits any sort of unique ID.
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