The Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC) has ordered operators to reactivate hundreds of thousands of cellphone strains affected by the linking of the Nationwide Identification Numbers (NINs) with their Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) (NIN-SIM).
Over the weekend, many subscribers/customers had been unable to entry their cellphone strains after telecom corporations blocked some cellphone strains.
LEADERSHIP experiences that hundreds of thousands of cellphone customers had been unable to confirm their NINs with their SIMs. This meant that their numbers had been blocked by their telecom service suppliers consistent with legal guidelines and insurance policies of the NIN-SIM linkage.
Telcos Block Millions Of Phone Lines As NIN-SIM Linkage Deadline Approaches
A go to to the Nationwide Identification Administration Fee (NIMC) workplace in Ikeja, Lagos and a few telecommunications corporations customer support facilities on Monday, confirmed that many subscribers in massive numbers visited the service facilities to rectify the problems with their linkage or to hyperlink their NIN to their SIMs.
Nevertheless, in a press assertion made out there to LEADERSHIP on Monday afternoon, and signed by the director, Public Affairs, NCC, Reuben Muoka, the regulatory Fee stated shopper is its precedence, whereas directing all operators to reactivate all strains that had been disconnected over the weekend in view of the quick time out there for customers to undertake the verification of their NINs with their SIMs.
The press assertion partly learn: “The patron is our precedence; subsequently, contemplating the challenges the blockages have precipitated, the Fee has directed all operators to reactivate all strains that had been disconnected over the weekend in view of the quick time out there for customers to undertake the verification of their NINs with their SIMs. Reactivated customers are to notice that that is for a restricted interval to permit them to correctly hyperlink their NIN to their SIM.”
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The Fee, subsequently, tasked members of the general public who’re but to confirm their SIMs to take action as quickly as potential to take care of entry to their cellphone strains.
