The Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC) has mentioned its current audit of all of the cellular networks in Nigeria exhibits that there isn’t a main challenge of information depletion opposite to claims and complaints by subscribers.
The Govt Vice Chairman of the Fee, Dr. Aminu Maida, said this whereas reviewing the actions of the telecom regulator in 2024.
He, nonetheless, famous that the audit, which was concluded in Q3 2024, confirmed that there have been minor points on the networks, which the regulator is at present working to handle.
“We had a speculation that it isn’t true that there’s a knowledge depletion challenge within the business. It could possibly be notion.
“So the very first thing we did was that we instantly performed a billing audit on the methods of the most important MNOs, utilizing respected auditors. That train was accomplished in Q3 of this yr and surprisingly, we didn’t discover any main points,” he mentioned.
NIN-SIM linkage train
Maida mentioned one other main milestone for the telecom regulator within the yr was the conclusion of the implementation of the federal authorities’s coverage on the linkage of Nationwide Identification Quantity (NIN) with SIMs.
- In line with him, this train supplies a number of alternatives for the digital economic system and the nationwide safety of the nation.
- He added that with the conclusion of the implementation, each single SIM card within the nation is now linked to a verified NIN.
- He mentioned the linkage now offers the telecom regulator a really sturdy basis from a safety perspective to work with legislation enforcement businesses and reliably give them the knowledge of who owns what.
- Maida emphasised that extra importantly, the linkage offers Nigeria a basis for the digital economic system to construct on.
“You’d agree with me that nearly each transaction we carry out immediately, in someway, hyperlinks again to your cellular quantity, whether or not it’s your e-commerce or whether or not it’s your registration for JAMB, or simply usually any service that wishes to achieve you for customer help.
“So being able to have the ability to clearly determine who is aware of what would instill a number of confidence and integrity within the system, which might lay the best foundations for the digital economic system,” the EVC mentioned.
What it’s best to know
The obligatory linkage of NIN with SIM started in December 2020 when the federal government directed telecommunication firms to bar unregistered SIM playing cards and SIMs that weren’t linked to NIN.
- Nevertheless, a number of deadlines have been fastened till August this yr when the NCC fastened a closing deadline of September 14 for not simply linking but in addition verification of all NINs linked with SIMs.
- Earlier than that, many telecom subscribers/shoppers have been unable to make or obtain telephone calls between July 28 and 29, because the telecom operators barred hundreds of thousands of traces forward of the July 31 earlier fastened by the regulator.
- This, nonetheless, led to chaos as many subscribers that besieged the telcos shops went violent. The motion additionally coincided with a deliberate nationwide protest scheduled for August 1 to 10.
- This prompted the NCC to make a U-turn, by ordering all telecommunication firms within the nation to reactivate all traces they’d barred.
The telecom regulator later introduced a closing deadline of September 14, for all traces to be linked with verified NIN, after which all unlinked or unverified traces have been blocked.
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