Legend Magazine (June
LEGEND MAGAZINE (JUNE - 2019) June Current Affairs and Quiz, English, Banking Awareness, Simplification Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue: 19 | Page : 48 | Topic : Legend of June | Price: Not for Sale JUNE MONTH CA • The Indian government has Govt. Plans To Raise USD 84 Billion From demanded Whatsapp, the Facebook-owned Airwaves Auction In 2019: NATIONAL messaging application, to digitally fingerprint Govt. Set To Roll Out IMEI Database To Help • Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA messages that are sent on its platform without People Track Stolen Mobile Phones: Government hopes to increase around $83.8 breaking the encryption. billion (Rs 5.83 trillion rupees) from its latest • The Telecom Ministry is set to roll out • AudienceNet, an UK-based social and round of airwaves auction in 2019. a Central Equipment Identity consumer research agency, reported that the Register (CEIR), a database of International • The Central government is planning to majority of the respondents in India selected Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) to help sell 8,600 megahertz of telecom airwaves WhatsApp as the preferred choice of social media people track their stolen mobile phones. across multiple frequency bands. Rs 65,789 crore network and a messaging platform. was raised in the airwaves auction held by the • People can inform the Department of Telecom • It also highlighted that about 78% of the government in 2016-17. (DoT) on losing their phones, which will, in turn, respondents trust WhatsApp to keep their blacklist their IMEI numbers. DoT had declared its • Recently, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar personal details private and secure. plan to implement this project in July 2017 and a Prasad announced the debut auction of fifth- pilot was conducted in Maharashtra.
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