The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has described as unfounded the report that mobile phones’ subscribers would be mass disconnected as a result of the ongoing linkage of SIM Registration Records with the National Identity Number (NIN). The Commission, which stated this in a statement sent to Platforms Africa, added that most of the reports are based on the erroneous assumption that for every network or SIM connection, there is one unique human subscriber. “The attention of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been drawn to numerous publications in both…
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