The Nigerian Communications Fee says community service suppliers have barred all Subscriber Identification Modules with out Nationwide Id Numbers.
The Fee’s spokesman, Reuben Morka, disclosed this throughout a Channels Tv interview monitored by reporter.
Based on him, the subscribers disconnected haven’t been critical about their NIN-SIM linkage.
He famous that the first goal of the coverage is to spice up safety and nationwide planning.
“It is going to be troublesome to position a hand on the precise variety of telephone traces which have been barred. However take it that everyone who has not submitted NIN to service suppliers has been barred.
“The service suppliers began barring subscribers many days earlier than the deadline.
“We predict to do an audit on that earlier than the top of the week as a result of the service suppliers must ship in knowledge of the subscribers barred.
“The method is to have an identification connected to a SIM. One of many advantages of SIM registration is to have a digital identification. The Nigerian authorities may be very critical about having NIN as managed by NIMC. The concept is to make sure that we now have these collectively. Some targets, in the event you keep in mind, are safety and nationwide planning. Additionally contains Know Your Buyer’s particulars”, he mentioned.
Recall that following the expiration of NIN-SIM linkage on February 28, community operators mentioned they’d disconnected 40 million subscribers with out NIN.
The cellular community suppliers mentioned the subsequent section is to bar subscribers with a number of SIMs with out NIN linkage.
The event comes after a number of deadline extensions for the reason that coverage was kickstarted by the then Minister of Communications and Digital Economic system, Isa Pantami, in 2020.
