Hi Ali,

The fine is simply outrageous. I wonder if the same would have been
done if a Wanjiku (or Adenike) for that matter had been kidnapped.
Security requires collaboration from different stakeholders. The same
sim cards have put food on thousands of tables  despite the manner in
which they were issued. I think the NCC should have benchmarked with
the likes of Communications Authority of Kenya, who have achieved some
success, albeit challenges in registering subscibers.

Best Regards

On 11/9/15, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Listers
>
> This is an interesting case of a regulator finally swinging into action
> after a former finance minister was kidnapped and the authorities couldn’t
> trace the sim cards used in the crime.
>
> When Nigeria failed to trace owners of SIM cards used by kidnappers of a
> prominent politician in September, it was the final straw for the west
> African country after what it called a string of violations by telecoms firm
> MTN Group.
>
> Africa’s biggest mobile phone company was given a $5.2 billion penalty by
> the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) last month after the South
> African company failed to cut off users with unregistered SIM cards from its
> network.
>
> Nigeria has been pushing industry players to verify the identity of their
> subscribers on worries that unregistered SIM cards were being used for
> criminal activity in a country facing Islamic militant group Boko Haram’s
> insurgency.
>
>
> Read on:-
>
> http://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/companies-and-deals/nigeria-kidnap-case-helped-to-trigger-fine-on-mtn/#.Vj5zGEBTFVY.linkedin
> <http://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/companies-and-deals/nigeria-kidnap-case-helped-to-trigger-fine-on-mtn/#.Vj5zGEBTFVY.linkedin>
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Ali Hussein
> ali@hussein.me.ke
>
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