1 Scope

22.0163GPPInternational Mobile station Equipment Identities (IMEI)Release 17TS

Tools: ARFCN - Frequency Conversion for 5G NR/LTE/UMTS/GSM

The present document defines the principal purpose and use of International Mobile station Equipment Identities (IMEI).

3GPP TS 23.003 describes the technical manner of numbering, addressing and identification.

1.1 References

The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.

References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non‑specific.
For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.

[1] 3GPP TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".

[2] 3GPP TS 23.003: "Numbering, addressing and identification".

[3] ISO/IEC 7812 (1989): "Identification cards – Numbering system and registration procedure for issuer identifiers".

1.2 Definitions and abbreviations

In addition to the following, abbreviations used in the present document are listed in 3GPP TS 21.905.

International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEI): An "International Mobile Station Equipment Identity" is a unique number which shall be allocated to each individual mobile station equipment in the PLMN and shall be unconditionally implemented by the MS manufacturer.