DoT asks Idea, Vodafone to provide information on mobile Internet users

Business news from New Delhi: The Department of Telecom (DoT) has asked telecom operators Idea Cellular and Vodafone to provide Intelligence Bureau (IB) identification of subscribers using Internet on their mobile phones.
    
DoT officials said instructions have been issued to Idea and Vodafone to provide the requisite information to IB at the earliest.
    
The security agency had sought details of some mobile numbers by providing the corresponding IP addresses to Vodafone but the telecom operator failed to respond.
    
The DoT has also instructed other operators to put in place a suitable mechanism that would allow the security agencies to uniquely identify the individual user based on the information provided by them.Click here for read more