Somebody needs to take the government to court for disenfranchising poor Kenyans who did not have money to go to the nearest dealer to register their SIMs as they needed the money to celebrate Christmas, this is definitely the work of regressive forces who are out to stop the complete implementation of the new constitution especially the section on human rights. 

Exactly how does the government expect those 2.4 million Kenyans, many of who recently registered as voters, will be able to check if they are in the register of the IEBC, this is how they are planning to rig the elections, in addition how will they check the results of their children who recently sat their KCPE and KCSE results if their phones have been turned off.

I say the government should send money to those people who have not registered their SIMs so that they can take a taxi to their preferred customer service center to register.

Naomba Siri kali.

 
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
From: "Wambua, Christopher" <Wambua@cck.go.ke>
To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: Consumer and Public Affairs <CPA@cck.go.ke>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Friday, 11 January 2013, 16:03
Subject: [kictanet] Update on the switch off of unregistered SIM cards

Listers,  
 
More than 2.4 million unregistered SIM cards switched off
 
The four local mobile operators have to date switched off more than 2.4 million unregistered SIM cards.
 
According to statistics gathered from mobile operators, a total of 2,408,266 unregistered mobile lines had, by January 8, been switched off, barely a week after the expiry of the December 31 deadline.
 
Safaricom has disconnected a total of 1.2 million unregistered SIM cards. Orange and Airtel have disconnected 520,000 and 365,266 unregistered lines, respectively. YuMobile on the other hand has switched off 323,000 SIM cards.
 
Subscribers whose lines have been switched off have up to 90 days to register their SIM cards, failing which their mobile numbers will be withdrawn permanently and subsequently reassigned to new users. 
 
Below is disaggregated data on the switch off:
 
Operator
Registered Subscribers
Suspended Subscribers
28th Dec 2012
8th Jan 2013
28th Dec 2012
8th Jan 2013
Airtel
3,877,475
4,347,765
70,830
365,266
Orange
2,106,250
2,160,873
120,010
520,000
Safaricom
17,200,000
17,290,000
800,000
1,200,000
YuMobile
2,353,106
2,440,000
290,000
323,000
Total
25,536,831
26,238,638
 
1,280,840
2,408,266
 
 
Christopher Wambua
Manager/Communications
Consumer and Public Affairs Division
Communications Commission of Kenya
P.O. Box 14448, NAIROBI 00800
KENYA
 

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