The Star (Nairobi)

Kenya: 2.4 Million Unregistered SIM Cards Switch Off So Far-CCK

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A poster encouraging people to give up their fake phones.

Mobile phone service providers have so far switched off more than 2.4 million unregistered SIM cards. Safaricom is leading the pack at 1.2 million, Orange has disconnected 520,000, Airtel 365,266 and Yu 323,000 lines.

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