The Nigerian Co m m u n i c a t i o n s
Commission (NCC) is planning to ban the
sales of SIMs cards in open market across the
country, a source told the Daily Trust.
A source in the commission said in Abuja,
yesterday, that the regulator would soon meet
with telecom operators to intimate them of its
plan.
This development followed a recent Daily
Trust report which said pre-registered SIM
cards were still sold by agents of GSM
operators, in spite of a ban.
The Daily Trust learnt that the commission
was secretly combing major markets across
Nigeria to confiscate the already registered
SIM cards and arrest the vendors and dealers
of the SIMs.
But NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Mr Tony
Ojobo, said it was not true that the
commission was planning to ban open sale of
SIMs. “It is not true,” he said. Speaking on
phone, he added:
“We are only banning sale of pre-registered
SIM cards.” Meanwhile, the NCC has arrested
four vendors selling pre-registered SIM cards
at the popular Wuse Market in Abuja.
Mr Salisu Abdul, an assistant director,
enforcement, at the NCC, tsaid after the
arrest, last week, that the clampdown on those
behind the pre-registered SIM would continue
in other major markets in the country.
He said: “Today we have gone to MTN
premises, we are now in Wuse Market. The
purpose of the exercise is all about SIM
registration. For some time, NCC has been
trying to apply the SIM regulation so that all
SIMs can be duly registered.
However, we have been having report that
people are registering SIM cards and selling
them to the general public. There is serious
danger in doing that, it compromises national
security. We have got report that in many
locations in Abuja and nationwide this activity
is ongoing.”

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Good one. That's how it is done in security-conscious countries.

sims go cm dey do competition with iPhone 7

It is a welcome development I think