Statistics and Quick Facts

• Each every year in Australia more than 200,000 mobile phones are reported lost or stolen. This equates to 4000 each week or one mobile phone handset every three minutes.
  
  
• Since the launch of the program in September 2005 to January 2005 there have been a total of 298,621 requests for blocking.
  
  
• Since June 2004 there has been a stabilisation of blocking activity. The average number of phones blocked represents a reduction in the number of handsets reported lost or stolen as a percentage of total mobile use.
  
  
• Requests for unblocking have reached 65,675 for the same period. This represents a 22% recovery rate.