SIM deactivation: NCC may sanction telcos for non-compliance

The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has accused operators of the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) of not complying with its directive to deactivate all unregistered subscriber identity modules (SIMs). Also to be deactivated are those that suffered one irregularity or the other in the course of SIM card registration.
The NCC has threatened to  sanction the telcos.
According to the NCC, from about 38.78 million SIM cards found to be defective in terms of improper registration details, including poor finger prints, no facial information and other biometric challenges, only about 10.7 million have been deactivated.
Its Head, Compliance and Monitoring Team, Efosa Efosa, who spoke with reporters in Lagos yesterday, said all the operators failed to comply with the directive on the deactivation of improperly registered SIM cards.
He accused MTN, the dominant operator, of failing to comply with the directive, while Airtel, Globacom, and Etisalat partially complied, he said.
The chief enforcer recalled that in September last year, NCC sent 38.78 million subscriber lines that had registration hiccups to the telcos and directed them to normalise the registration by re-registering the affected subscribers.
In the figures, MTN had 18.6 million unregistered and improperly registered SIMs, Airtel had 7.49 million, Globacom-2.23 million, while Etisalat had 10.46 million, totaling 38. 78 million SIMs that had issues.




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