National Mobile Registry
Regulating imports, protecting citizens & increasing public revenue
Take control of your national digital ecosystem.
Hayo’s National Mobile Registry (NMR) platform connects governments, regulators, mobile network operators and other authorities to provide full visibility and control over their national digital ecosystems.
The comprehensive platform is specifically designed to detect, block and manage counterfeit, stolen and illegally imported devices, while ensuring authenticity, user verification and regulatory compliance. The solution empowers governments to trace devices across networks, enforce policy and close tax revenue gaps caused by grey-market activity.
Benefits
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Control Device Imports
Monitor and manage devices entering the country, identifying undeclared, illegal, or undervalued imports. Ensure only compliant devices are permitted onto national networks.
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Enforce National Compliance
Apply regulatory policies consistently across all mobile operators through automated, real-time enforcement. Identify and restrict non-compliant, counterfeit, or unauthorised devices.
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Protect Citizens & Networks
Identify, detect and prevent mobile theft and fraud through real-time monitoring of device and SIM activity, including SIM swap attacks and suspicious behaviour patterns.
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Increase Public Revenue
Ensure accurate collection of duties and taxes on devices while reducing grey-market activity. Strengthen revenue assurance and support long-term economic growth.
Tax Collection Through NMR
Hayo sits in the middle of governments and mobile operators to accurately monitor mobile devices and digital taxation requirements. Our NMR architecture contains a device map powered by GSMA, a legal framework for importation within the platform, and registration of personal devices.
Tax collection is a key outcome of NMR, driven by stronger control over devices, identity, and network access. By validating every device through its IMEI, we ensure that only legitimate, declared, and taxed devices are allowed onto the network, closing gaps that otherwise lead to revenue leakage, SIM swap fraud, and illicit activity including theft.
Example
A user enters a new country. They get a text message on their mobile saying “Welcome to {Country Name}. You have 60 days to use your phone without customs. If you are here for longer than 60 days, you must pay a customs fee via this link.”
Users can make this payment instantly via the mobile link, or go into physical kiosks to make the payment. If they do not make it within 60 days, the Hayo NMR system will pick it up and block their IMEI. This block request is then sent to all Hayo’s partner MNOs in the country, so none of them will service that phone. Then once the user pays the customs, or exits the borders, their phone will work as normal again.
Implementation
Increase in VAT & customs income from $2M/Y to $111M/Y
55x
- Illegal Importation
- Legal Importation
The above diagrams contain estimated figures for tax collection, following the implementation on 5% of the total population of a particular African country.
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