The Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) says the national identification number will be a compulsory
requirement for sim registration.
In a statement released by the
industry regulator, it said the SIM registration exercise will help with the
adoption of technology to improve security in the country.
“In line with the federal
government’s directive, the commission is collaborating with the National
Identity Management Commission towards the implementation of the mandatory use
of national identification number regulations which stipulates the mandatory
use of NIN for transactions such as SIM registration, reactivation/retrieval,”
it said.
The NCC explained that it was
working on a credible database for telephone subscribers to allow the tracking
of telephone use in criminal activities and other identity management needs.
Thus, the commission said it
de-duplicated 24 million validly registered telecom subscribers from the
records using the automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS).
“During the period under review,
over 24 million validly registered subscriber records were scrubbed/ cleaned-up
(deduplicated) via automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) in
fulfilment of the mandate to establish a credible database of telephone
subscribers,” it explained.
“The database was also upgraded
with additional features such as ‘Add SIM’ and ‘Update SIM’ functionalities as
well as the national identity number (NIN) field for an improved SIM
registration process and ease of harmonization of SIM registration subscriber
data with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) when the NIN
regulations come into force
Data provided by the commission
also showed that 22.3 million subscribers joined the do-not-disturb list.
The channel was created to
control the rate at which subscribers get unsolicited messages.
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