Looking for a unique identifier

Looking for a unique identifier
Hello,
I'm looking for a way of uniquely identify a mobile phone in order to check access rights to my application. The scenario is this: users download an application from my server and, eventually, request upgrades and data needed by the application to work. Each application has a unique id hard-coded which is sent back to the server with each request to check for permission.
The problem is that somebody could copy the application and use it. The server wouldn't be able to detect that two different applications are making requests with the same id. I'd need to be able to differentiate between phones. Without such a mechanism, I won't know whether an application has been legally downloaded from my server or is an illegal copy. I thought about the phone number or the IMEI code but it seems to be impossible to retrieve them.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

Dont know if it will help, but many operators put the MSISDN (phone number) in the header for data requests (such as a WAP connection through their gateway), this is how they customise content for you etc (as well as all the securtiy).Perhaps when your user downloads your application you could attempt to capture this info and then re-use it for their updates/config changes. HTH

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