Nigeria Communications Fee, NCC, says as a matter of crucial nationwide safety, Telecom Customers should hyperlink their Nationwide Identification Quantity-Subscriber Identification Module (NIN-SIM).
To this finish, the Fee has directed all telecommunication operators to bar cellphone strains of subscribers whose strains are usually not linked to their NINs on or earlier than February 28, 2024.
Talking on the NCC big day on the ongoing forty fifth Kaduna Worldwide Commerce Truthful, the Govt Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Fee, Aminu Maida, mentioned one main goal of linking subscribers’ NIN to SIM is to assist enhance and improve nationwide safety within the nation.
To hyperlink the NIN to at least one’s SIM, he defined {that a} subscriber must submit his/her NIN to their respective Service Supplier to finish the method of NIN-SIM linkage.
He defined, “As a regulator of the telecommunications sector within the nation, the Fee carries out its capabilities to make sure service availability, accessibility, affordability, and sustainability for all classes of customers, who’re leveraging ICT/Telecoms to drive private and enterprise actions.”
He mentioned the NCC has established a strong regulatory framework that promotes transparency, high quality of service, and honest competitors, including that it has arrange channels for shopper redress, guaranteeing that buyers can resolve disputes in a well timed and environment friendly method.
With this 12 months’s commerce honest theme, “Sustaining Financial Restoration via Deepening Native Content material Worth Chain” he said that this can be very vital, because it resonates deeply with the rules and targets of the Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC) on the promotion of native content material improvement within the telecoms business”.
