What if you lost your phone and are at sea about how to come in terms with it? Samsung has come up with an answer, but then it hasn’t been applauded by the carrier networks that rule the telecommunication scene.
According to TVNZ on November 20, the Korean maker’s proposal to incorporate a kill switch in phones as an anti-theft prop has been shot down by carriers AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless, United States Cellular Corp., Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc.
The Samsung plan was to have a built in kill switch that would make the device inoperable in case of theft.
The carrier companies have come out against the plan saying that they do not want to let Samsung pre-load its mobile phones with the anti-theft software as a standard feature.
They have said this because such a prop could allow hackers to disable phones.
It has been reported that Samsung has made this development clear to the San Francisco district attorney's office in July itself, and had stated that network carriers were totally against kill switches in phones.
It needs to be noted that there has been a long pending demand for the installation of kill switches in mobile phones so that they could help end theft.
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