Nigeria: Concern Mounts Over Failing SIM Registration Project

14 May 2012

The N6.2 billion SIM card registration project embarked upon by the Nigerian Communica-tions Commission (NCC) is failing, THISDAY can report today.

Industry sources told THISDAY at the yesterday that although the NCC insists that any subscriber who has registered with it need not register with individual networks, there is a serious problem of synchronisation and integration of the data of registered subscribers.

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