Telecommunications subscribers in Nigeria have requested cellular community operators and the Nigerian Communications Fee to increase the Nationwide Identification Quantity and Subscriber Identification/Identification Module linkage deadline by 30 days.
Nationwide Affiliation of Telecommunications Subscribers, NATCOMS, Nationwide President, Adeolu Ogunbanjo, disclosed this in a phone interview with reporter on Wednesday.
He famous that telecom subscribers want extra time to finish their NIN-SIM linkage to keep away from being disconnected by their cellular community operators.
“It’s a horrible time for telecom subscribers in Nigeria because the NIN-SIM linkage deadline expired on February 28. I need to use this medium to enchantment to operators and NCC to provide subscribers an extra 30-day grace interval,” he mentioned.
reporter recollects that in December, telecom operators, on the directives of NCC, had insisted on the February 28 deadline to bar subscribers with out NIN-SIM linkage.
The regulators had mentioned the transfer was essential to tame rising insecurity within the nation.
In December 2020, Isa Pantami, the previous Minister of Communications and Digital Financial system, introduced the mixing coverage of SIM playing cards into the NIN database.
