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Firstorderwizard:
A protest letter against recycling of old, worn-out polithieves like bubu,Tibubu and Lai would have added sense into this write up

What's holding your own hand from writing that?

@Poster, recycling of inactive SIM is a general rule not limited to just MTN.
You may address your letter to NCC. The telecoms are regulated by NCC.

Your open letter should be to the NCC who sets the standards
Numbers are recycled everywhere even in the US. You do not own a number for a lifetime and you accepted that contract by using a SIM card. You must recharge and use your credit to use a billable service to keep using your number.

Is ok

The operators, MTN, etc cannot be held responsible. It's the job of NCC.
Only NCC can change that.

9mobile also guilty of this.

For other news, check my profile.

Imagine, my late mum's number has been given to someone else. Someone called me and said she mistakenly dialed her number while trying to call me but was surprised that it rang and someone said "hello" to her. When she told me about it, I argued that it was never possible because I was the one that switched off her phone and removed the Sim from the phone. I later dialed the number and heard the person's voice but I quickly cut the call. Can you just imagine that. This person that bought the Sim now will start receiving strange calls because people might try to reach my mum because it's not long she died.

It's normal for sim to be recycled,not just in nigeria. It happens everywhere..

Hmmm.

tk4rd:
Dear MTN..

I am going to be very brief on this, but I would make my points very clear.

You people had been doing “recycling of numbers” of innocent Nigerians who had not used their lines for up to one year or more, and the only remedy you guys put in place was to introduce a service known as “Keep My Line”, which you guys did not even sensitize the citizens on or make popular enough, and as a result, lots of the helpless Nigerian citizens did not even know about this service.

This had cause a lot of people to loose their precious numbers just like that, only because they had the opportunity of travelling abroad for some jobs or for studies, or maybe for one serious reason or another had a good cause to temporarily abandon their main lines for more than one year..

MTN, you guys never thought that these recycled lines might had been connected to the original owners bank-accounts, and that the new owners of these lines would now be given express unchecked access to these bank account through the USSD Mobile Banking Methods.

...Yess..
Someone recently bought a new line, and with all the happiness that he was able to still see a “0803...” number still available, the next thing he started seeing were messages from lots of people he never knew, lots of calls from unknown persons mistaking him to be the husband of one certain lady and telling him to hand the phone over to her so that they can talk to her directly.. Meanwhile, this guy had not married. He doesn't even have a serious girlfriend at the moment. To cap it all, he continued receiving series of endless debit and credit alerts on his phones of transactions he knows absolute nothing about.
He first went to the bank to stop the endless alerts, but they told him that he wasn't the one to apply for the change of number, but the original owner of the bank-account.

Now, imagine that this guy here has someone working in the bank who is ready to divulge information to him for some chicken change,, all he needs is just the correct account number of the person, and he would activate the USSD mobile banking options on the bank account..
What if the original owner had already activated USSD Mobile Banking?? In that case, all that the new owner of the line would do is just to dial the USSD mobile banking code for the bank, and start trying his best to change the transaction PIN or Password.

Dear MTN, if you guys may recall,, there is a recent issue which is already in court between You (MTN), Hanan Buhari (President Buhari's Daughter), The DSS, and one Anthony Okolie from Delta State.

To be honest, you MTN are the main cause of all the problems here. You guys blocked off Hanan in the first place and she lost her precious line.. Then you went ahead to sell the same line as a new line to an innocent unsuspecting Anthony.
Tell me, is it his fault that he bought the line..
You guys are totally guilty here.

And the earlier you stop doing this recycling of numbers, the better for you guys.
More criminal cases are still coming.

The case of Anthony Okolie and Hanan Buhari is just the beginning.

thanks for the write up Bro..

The problem here is our Old cargo and primitive ones called NCC , they have messed up this country hence MTN can take advantage

A nation of 200Mil without database has the power to reassign subscriber identification number without any consultation either from criminal dept or society..

NCC is a disgrace and full of old fools that are in the system without basic Technology know how..

hisexcellency34:
Nothing bad in recycling numbers..as long as you dont commit fraud with it

Are you really normal?

instead of recycling phone number they should instead extend the number from 11 to 15 digits.

that way everyone can keep their old number.

imaging buying a blacklisted phone number. a number that was previously used for crime.

Recycling of inactive line is a world wide industry standard

Thats not even important, pls Mtn oo your 1GB is like 5MB, just Instagram login is finished.....there is God ooo you people should think what you're doing oo

Diverting a little.
Please when one borrows airtime from Mtn, is it supposed to finish in 24 hours whether one uses it or not?

I bought mtn sim last year for business line. Last week I started receiving alert from jaiz Bank for credit and debit alert on that line when I check the name on that account it was one Aboki, prior to that I have been receiving several call from others, I just they tell them wrong number

tk4rd:
Dear MTN..

You guys blocked off Hanan in the first place and she lost her precious line.. Then you went ahead to sell the same line as a new line to an innocent unsuspecting Anthony.
.

There are Terms and Conditions at the sale of every SIM. Which we all accepted at purchase and activation of the line
I advise you to read it before this letter of yours.

I bought a new SIM card some months ago I wanted to top up airtime for internet data ,so I dial GTB ussd code from my sim 2 instead of my sim 1 .
To my greatest suprise the transaction was successful and I ended up buying airtime from the previous owner of the new line account,I have to visit GTB to deactivate the line from that account

My friend up till last Friday still receiving alerts of millions of naira messages..he tired,broke and need of money..if police especially SARS the
yahoo searchers get hold of that his phone the would think they have arrived....their matter na ole gbe ole gba.. meanwhile he knows nothing about it

[quote author=visijo post=87090371]She invited you to her church and you are going with condoms in your pocket for what now ?[/quote
u are currently on a wrong lane....those who give a Bleep went the other way,,,biko shea be pwa..
Geroutofhere.

tk4rd:
Wait..
So GLO and Etisalat (or abi 9mobile) do the same thing to people too?

in his own case, it's the trucaller that's faulty and not the network operators.

mtn is a useless network .

oluwaseyi000:
Are these telecoms claiming there is absolutely no way to restrict all ussd transactions and previously sim-tied message on recycled numbers until new users activate them for their own account

Afterall all ussd transactions goes through the telecoms, if you can wipe my name, fingerprint and other information associated to my previous sim card why can't you wipe my bank accounts tied to the same sim card

oga you people think network operators can do everything abi. That's the job of your bank and not that of any network provider. Such issues can only be resolved by your bank.

Wow

i called my secondary school classmate line nd to my surprise the line was picked up by a girl (unn student) ,d gal was nw telling me dt she bought the sim card new

MTN really need to look into this, I registered a new sim with one of their outlets and its not working, it keep saying I need to register, the annoying part is that I spent over 3hrs in queue

In fact I tired for all Nigeria telecommunications my Mtn line and Glo line was lost in November 2010 with phone I then went to Glo office in Ibadan they said I can not retrieve my line then while my Glo line was my official used then but I went to Mtn to retrieve my line and they gave me welcome back sim that was about Mtn. But as for my Glo line after some years the Glo line was sold a woman , I didn't known this it was one of my lost school friend that chat with on Facebook that told me he called me and a woman denied of knowing me . now me too bought Airtel for browsing in 2017 later that year I started receiving some strange calls I keep on saying to them its wrong number but that didn't stop strange calls when I get tired of this I remove the sim from my phone and later put it back , so with it I understand that it was Airtel caused it , in January this year some one called me and I told the person that is a wrong number and I end the call later she called again telling me rubbish then I end the call again later she now called for the 5th times and I told her again it's was a wrong number but she said it was her uncle that is using it and her uncle used the Airtel line to called her two days before she called me and I explained to her that am the one that is using this Airtel line now , I bought the Airtel line and I have the certificate with me .
The issue of blocking someone line is bad , the Nigeria communication commission should find solution to this issue am sure there still a lots of people having some related issue as well

not only MTN nah all of dem.I registered Airtel last month, and second day, nah so my phone dey ring ring with sms from diz and dat.Num weyni neva give anybody ooo.Make Bubu DSS sha nor cum carry person

tk4rd:
Dear MTN..

I am going to be very brief on this, but I would make my points very clear.

You people had been doing “recycling of numbers” of innocent Nigerians who had not used their lines for up to one year or more, and the only remedy you guys put in place was to introduce a service known as “Keep My Line”, which you guys did not even sensitize the citizens on or make popular enough, and as a result, lots of the helpless Nigerian citizens did not even know about this service.

This had cause a lot of people to loose their precious numbers just like that, only because they had the opportunity of travelling abroad for some jobs or for studies, or maybe for one serious reason or another had a good cause to temporarily abandon their main lines for more than one year..

MTN, you guys never thought that these recycled lines might had been connected to the original owners bank-accounts, and that the new owners of these lines would now be given express unchecked access to these bank account through the USSD Mobile Banking Methods.

...Yess..
Someone recently bought a new line, and with all the happiness that he was able to still see a “0803...” number still available, the next thing he started seeing were messages from lots of people he never knew, lots of calls from unknown persons mistaking him to be the husband of one certain lady and telling him to hand the phone over to her so that they can talk to her directly.. Meanwhile, this guy had not married. He doesn't even have a serious girlfriend at the moment. To cap it all, he continued receiving series of endless debit and credit alerts on his phones of transactions he knows absolute nothing about.
He first went to the bank to stop the endless alerts, but they told him that he wasn't the one to apply for the change of number, but the original owner of the bank-account.

Now, imagine that this guy here has someone working in the bank who is ready to divulge information to him for some chicken change,, all he needs is just the correct account number of the person, and he would activate the USSD mobile banking options on the bank account..
What if the original owner had already activated USSD Mobile Banking?? In that case, all that the new owner of the line would do is just to dial the USSD mobile banking code for the bank, and start trying his best to change the transaction PIN or Password.

Dear MTN, if you guys may recall,, there is a recent issue which is already in court between You (MTN), Hanan Buhari (President Buhari's Daughter), The DSS, and one Anthony Okolie from Delta State.

To be honest, you MTN are the main cause of all the problems here. You guys blocked off Hanan in the first place and she lost her precious line.. Then you went ahead to sell the same line as a new line to an innocent unsuspecting Anthony.
Tell me, is it his fault that he bought the line..
You guys are totally guilty here.

And the earlier you stop doing this recycling of numbers, the better for you guys.
More criminal cases are still coming.

The case of Anthony Okolie and Hanan Buhari is just the beginning.

For all the countries I've been, there's no difference between the way MTN recycle inactive phone lines in Nigeria and the way its done elsewhere. As a matter of fact, Nigeria is not the only country where MTN does business. I am on a business trip outside Nigeria as I write, and I have two MTN lines right now previously owned my a native here. And yes, I received his/her bank alert few days ago but which I quickly deleted.

Every GSM company every place I know, recycle inactive numbers. Its not only done in Nigeria.

Is Buhari's daughter the only person in Nigeria who've ever dumped a phone line before? How about millions of other Nigerians who have used several phone lines in the past but which now belong to someone else?

The problem is not MTN but because you're ruled by a tyrant who can imprison you up for 10 weeks because you innocently purchased a phone line previously used by his daughter. When a country has a bad leader, the people live in fear. You jailed someone because he bought a phone line formerly used by your daughter?!!. I just can't get my head around this. This type of news is unheard of even in North Korea.

There's nothing wrong in recycling phone numbers. Infact, if numbers are not recycled, then telcos would run out of phone numbers.

If you lose your phone, go to your bank and update your details and stop blaming telcos.


Number recycling happens all over the world because you don't have an infinite amount of phone numbers available.