Nigeria is to start requiring ownership details of prepaid SIM cards to be registered with network operators in 2010.
The registration process will start in March and will last six months. SIM cards that are not registered after then will be shut out of the mobile networks.
The Head of Consumer Affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Lolia Emakpore said “The SIM card registration is in line with complaints that the commission had gotten that mobile phones are used to aid crimes and government has instructed the commission to adopt a mode to help stop crime.” Read the rest of this entry »
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