MDMS system renders 5 million phones in Nepal ‘illegal’ amid concerns over data security of legal phones

On May 15, Nepal implemented the Mobile Device Management System (MDMS), ending the long confusion about whether the system will be implemented and if yes, how. The MDMS system partially came to implementation in mid-September last year, to ban the illegally imported mobile phones .

The government is, however, undecided about the fate of about five million mobiles that entered Nepal without completing the due customs process. For now, the government has kept all those phones that entered on a grey list. It is uncertain whether the users will need to register those phones and if they can be “white-listed”. Likewise, there is no certainty about the data saved on the phones regardless of their legality.