NCC To Bar Unregistered SIM Cards By End Of March 2012

Have you registered your sim card?

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has issued a fresh notice that it will bar unregistered subscribers from all mobile networks by the end of March 2012.

The Executive Vice-Chairman, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, disclosed last week at a five-day youths software training programme sponsored by the Jim Ovia Foundation, in Lagos.

Though a lot of Nigerians have registered their SIM cards, Juwah said there were plans to bar unregistered subscribers from making calls with their SIM cards until they complied with the directive to register them.

The NCC boss hinted that the data collected during the six-month SIM registration exercise was being uploaded onto the NCC back end servers in Abuja, saying this was taking time due to the volume of the data.