The use and sale of counterfeit and substandard mobile phones in the country telecommunications space have been increasing to the extent that it has become a menace.
Simply put, counterfeiting means copying an original item, especially consumer products, with the intent of deceiving or defrauding the buyers.
Consumers are constrained by ignorance and sometimes; inability to detect counterfeit products; and poverty.
The interesting thing about the trade in counterfeit devices is that it is a buyer’s market. This means that it is the demand for the devices that encourages the supply.
Reliable estimates are hard to come by in Nigeria but it is believed that fake phone manufacturers and importers seem to be having upper hand in the current battle with such products’ regulators in the…
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