You gradully see the difficulty in implementing that indeed for all the parties concerned.
Ask a question: is it viable to create a blacklist of a $1000 bill to deter theives. Well I can say there are more smartphones being used than$1000 bills actualy around for daily use.
The only effect of the cell blacklist AFAIK is to kill the aftermarket sale of 2nd hand phone.
And the benefit goes to the carriers
The whole idea of blacklisting phone is as dumb as "Trump claims ID needed to buy groceries"
And the FAR EAST with population larger than the US/Can is obviously smarter than the US/Can. They are smarter with no cell blacklist to deal with.
Loosing a $1000 bill or a smartphone is just one of the many mishaps that we need to deal with .
Daniel
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