Mobile phone users in India are eyeing April 15, 2009, the day when as many as 25 million of their China-made mobile phones will die, with apprehension and concern.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced that the GSM Association has approved China's Telecommunication Terminal Testing & Approval Forum to issue international mobile equipment identity numbers to Chinese mobile phone and more than 200 types of mobile phones have received the IMEI numbers.