Thank you very much for your comments and the opportunity to correct some very common misunderstandings in this sector.

“1. Checkmend shows that a phone is blocked or has been blocked in or or on its lifetime, but in the UK it will only be blocked if its been reported as lost or stolen.
But Checkmend shows no lost or stolen reports !!!”

It does not follow that if a phone has been blocked then it has been reported stolen to the police. It simply means the subscriber has told their network it has been stolen. If a stolen report exists and we’ve been made aware of this by the police it will show.

“2. I have had a few phones checked that show green but in fact they are blocked , so therefore its misleading.”

As you correctly state in your next point, up to 48 hours may lapse until a block is effective across networks. CheckMEND does not get its information any faster than other networks are able to. Therefore there is a window during which a CheckMEND check could be performed in which the block may not be apparent. Our advice for buyers suggests that you wait 48 hours from first being offered a phone before checking and making a buying decision.

“3. A blocked phone will automatically be blocked on all the networks sharing EIR and CEIR , within 48 hours at the latest.
So Checkemend is also misleading by showing” phones blocked’ but ‘may still work on 1 or more network’”

The statement “Phone is blocked but may still function on one or more networks” is demonstrably true and serves as a warning for the consumer that we think is valuable.
All networks do not absorb the block information from CEIR at the same time. It is therefore possible that a consumer could find themselves with a CheckMEND report showing the phone has been blocked (recently) but the phone works on a network other than the one it was blocked on. In this case, the unwary consumer may distrust CheckMEND. This would be a mistake as the phone will stop working within a maximum of a further 24 hours. Hence our warning.

“Checkmend does not say what it does and i have heard there is going to be a new service that shows you whats blocked and whats not by a new company in 2010″

The CheckMEND service is described on its website at http://www.checkmend.com and we invite people to read the information there.
We thank you for the information about a new competitor next year and look forward to the challenge. Competition drives us to continually improve our performance and maintain our market leading position.

1. Checkmend shows that a phone is blocked or has been blocked in or or on its lifetime, but in the UK it will only be blocked if its been reported as lost or stolen.
But Checkmend shows no lost or stolen reports !!!

2. I have had a few phones checked that show green but in fact they are blocked , so therefore its misleading.

3. A blocked phone will automatically be blocked on all the networks sharing EIR and CEIR , within 48 hours at the latest.
So Checkemend is also misleading by showing” phones blocked’ but ‘may still work on 1 or more network’

Checkmend does not say what it does and i have heard there is going to be a new service that shows you whats blocked and whats not by a new company in 2010