The ongoing MTN SIM registration exercise is raising concerns about the safety of its subscribers’ data and its motive. Some subscribers and industry players have alleged that the operators and NCC might have lost the data base from that exercise.
They said the recent re-registration being carried out by the operators, most especially by the biggest player MTN, is a pointer to that fact. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had, in 2013, ordered all telecoms operators in the country to register their subscribers’ SIM cards. The NCC spent N6.2billion on the exercise. More than 100 million subscribers were registered at the time. The exercise ended in June 2013, but SIM card registration was allowed to continue at the points of purchase. Three years on, the operators, especially MTN, are now asking Nigerians to re-register their SIMs again. This has made some analysts and observers to begin to ask questions as to what had happened to the initial exercise. But MTN said that their records and documents on SIM registration are intact.
 

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