The
ongoing registration of Subscriber Identification Module cards has
thrown up a perplexing situation: 110.43 million lines have so far been
registered, a whopping 14.54 million more than the official figure of
95,886,714 active mobile lines in the country.
The Executive Vice-Chairman, Nigerian Communications
Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah, disclosed this at an interactive session
with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to him, this is a clear indication of
multiple registrations that must be corrected during the verification
process that will soon begin.
He said, “As we speak, we have a combined
registration of 110,433,976 of mobile SIM cards that have been
registered and the data is going to go through processing and cleaning
at the NCC. The registration was variously carried out by the NCC
contractors and the network operators.
“We are shortly going to begin verification of the
SIMs before a number can be said to be duly registered. With the
country’s telephone penetration standing at 95,886,714 lines, there is
already clear evidence of multiple registrations. These will be
eliminated to create a database of integrity and credibility.
“As the exercise comes to a close, subscribers whose
SIM cards are not registered will be deemed not to be interested in the
process or that the SIM cards have been abandoned and will be
disconnected,” the NCC boss added.
Juwah said the successful registration of SIM cards
would logically lead to number portability, which is expected to take
off in October.
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