@ChuckYeah wrote:
@kkaiser Since PM doesn't sell phones, I believe you can contact the provider you originally bought the phone from (eg Telus) and they can blacklist it for you. Please keep in mind all the advice above as well, especially the bit about how hard it is to unblacklist a phone if you eventually need to.
Contacting the original carrier might not work. A few years ago, I was reading about some complaints that carriers were adding IMEI numbers of devices to the national blacklist because of custoemr account payment issues while this was never the intent of the blacklist.
I believe that it was Fido who said that they do not practice that, and as way of protecting consumers from having their devices blacklisted by others who simply know the IMEI, would not blacklist any device unless it had been active on the network some time in the past 90 days and unless the request had been made by the same person whose account the device was used on.
