Federal Court imposes injunctions on traffickers of T-Mobile phones

This week T-Mobile USA, Inc. announced that it was granted four more separate final judgments and permanent injunctions as part of T-Mobile’s ongoing efforts to combat the unauthorized bulk purchase and resale of T-Mobile’s prepaid mobile phones, SIM cards, and other accessories — a practice that can be harmful and misleading to consumers.

According to the official information traffickers like Platform Enterprises, Delta Games, Inc., California Products International, Inc. and Arena Trading, Inc. profit by pocketing T-Mobile subsidies, preventing consumers from receiving the benefit of the subsidies and depriving T-Mobile and other wireless providers of new customers. Typically traffickers purchase or ask others to buy prepaid mobile phones in bulk from retail stores, remove the phones from their original packaging, discard warranties and manuals, hack into the phones’ software, fraudulently activate the SIM card, and then resell the phones and accessories to unsuspecting customers at a substantial profit.

Each of the final judgments and permanent injunctions permanently prohibits the defendants from engaging in any activities in any way related to the bulk purchase, unlocking or resale of T-Mobile phones and SIM cards, and from using the T-Mobile trademark. If the defendants violate the injunctions, the orders each provide a mechanism for enforcement by the courts and a minimum charge of an additional $5,000 in damages to be paid to T-Mobile.