Buying used mobile phones (second hand) in Sri Lanka.

Used mobile phones are freely available for sale in Sri Lanka at cheaper price as people. You can find them in the classified web sites, small shops and street corners. Some are smartphones while many of them are simple phones as the owners want to sale these and want to buy a good latest one or to get rid of their old ones.

If you are intended to buy a used mobile phone you must be more careful about it as it may land you in legal troubles. You must buy it from a good known reliable person. Because there are many phones in the second hand market that are stolen or snatched from people by thieves.

If the owner of the mobile phone reports the theft to the police, they can track the phone with the assistance of the TRC or can make the phone not to function in the future through using the IMEI number of the cell phone.

Recently many stolen mobile phones were captured back or made un-usable through any carrier.
The second hand mobile phone may be cheap or ca suit your pocket Also Sri Lanka mobile phone carriers are introducing 3.75G and 4G services, so you will need a smart phone to access these kind of networks.

So think about these risks, when you are going to buy a used or second hand mobile phone in Sri Lanka.