Your phone landing in the wrong hands could get you six months in jail
Listers, " The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Friday issued the stern warning, saying every Kenyan is responsible for any use of their mobile number in making calls, sending and receiving text messages as well as any financial transactions. The regulator says all Kenyans must only use registered SIM cards to transact business as they may be culpable in the event that their number is used in the commission of a crime." Full story here: http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Six-month-jail-term-for-Kenyans-whose-pho...
Thanks Grace. Two questions: 1. How do hawkers get these sim cards that they sell on the streets and in traffic? 2. Can guidelines serve as law under which people can be prosecuted? Best regards Githaiga, Grace On Friday, 06-01-2017 at 13:38 Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet wrote: Listers, " The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Friday issued the stern warning, saying every Kenyan is responsible for any use of their mobile number in making calls, sending and receiving text messages as well as any financial transactions. The regulator says all Kenyans must only use registered SIM cards to transact business as they may be culpable in the event that their number is used in the commission of a crime." Full story here: http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Six-month-jail-term-for-Kenyans-whose-pho...
Good points GG. Will all due respect to the technocrats at CA this sort of blanket announcements in the age of Hackers and Identity Theft exposes them to ridicule and a lack of understanding of the current scenario where one's phone can be used or identity hijacked without one knowing. Here's an interesting post from the FTC's Chief Technologist. Excerpt:- A few weeks ago an unknown person walked into a mobile phone store, claimed to be me, asked to upgrade my mobile phones, and walked out with two brand new iPhones assigned to my telephone numbers. My phones immediately stopped receiving calls, and I was left with a large bill and the anxiety and fear of financial injury that spring from identity theft. This post describes my experiences as a victim of ID theft, explains the growing problem of phone account hijacking, and suggests ways consumers and mobile phone carriers can help combat these scams. Read on:- https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2016/06/your-mobile-phone-acco... We expect nothing less from the CA. Please guys upgrade your Regulation Tools from those that are meant to regulate Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation and the Telegram Era to that of BlockChains, Distributed Computing, Mass Identity Theft, The Dark Web, Net Neutrality :-) and the Age of Snowden and Assange. We expect nothing else guys. Away with this Command and Control Regulatory Thinking and embrace Crowdsourcing and Open Community Engagement. We can help... Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad
On 6 Jan 2017, at 2:32 PM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Thanks Grace.
Two questions:
1. How do hawkers get these sim cards that they sell on the streets and in traffic?
2. Can guidelines serve as law under which people can be prosecuted?
Best regards
Githaiga, Grace
On Friday, 06-01-2017 at 13:38 Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet wrote: Listers,
" The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Friday issued the stern warning, saying every Kenyan is responsible for any use of their mobile number in making calls, sending and receiving text messages as well as any financial transactions.
The regulator says all Kenyans must only use registered SIM cards to transact business as they may be culpable in the event that their number is used in the commission of a crime."
Full story here:
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Six-month-jail-term-for-Kenyans-whose-pho...
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On 6 January 2017 at 13:38, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers,
" The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Friday issued the stern warning, saying every Kenyan is responsible for any use of their mobile number in making calls, sending and receiving text messages as well as any financial transactions.
==> The regulator says all Kenyans must only use registered SIM cards to transact business as they may be culpable in the event that their number is used in the commission of a crime." That statement also means that the Regulator is not able to block unregistered numbers from being used. The MNOs give the SIM cards to their distributors (there must be a name) who further give them to other sub distributors until they reach 'machiani' - at which point you can just buy a SIM card without any questions being asked. The MNOs should be fined 100,000 for each unregistered SIM Card that is used on their network. That money can also go to USF and accumulate interest while we procrastinate on the decisions on where/when the fund can be used.
Thank you Grace. “In case you lose of your SIM card, report to the nearest police station and demand an abstract." My question is: could this reporting process be digitalized? Probably, hundreds, if not thousands, of SIM cards are lost every day all over the country. The option of reporting lost SIM cards via sms or online would be very welcomed. Regards, Mildred Achoch. Check out the Rock 'n' roll film festival, Kenya TV Channel! http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers,
" The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Friday issued the stern warning, saying every Kenyan is responsible for any use of their mobile number in making calls, sending and receiving text messages as well as any financial transactions.
The regulator says all Kenyans must only use registered SIM cards to transact business as they may be culpable in the event that their number is used in the commission of a crime."
Full story here:
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Six-month-jail-term-for-Kenyans- whose-phones-are-used-in-crime/539546-3508084-k51vwl/index.html
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The SIM Card registration process itself should be digitized. I think it's trivial for the MNOs to work with a vendor to manufacture for them a mobile device for registration, which they can then give to M-Pesa/Airtel Money shops. The device could just take the required data, entered manually on the keypad, and the registrant's ID which is captured via a built-in scanner. Kenya is a world leader in mobile money, but not in digitization of simple processes, it seems. On 6 January 2017 at 15:47, Mildred Achoch via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Thank you Grace.
“In case you lose of your SIM card, report to the nearest police station and demand an abstract."
My question is: could this reporting process be digitalized? Probably, hundreds, if not thousands, of SIM cards are lost every day all over the country. The option of reporting lost SIM cards via sms or online would be very welcomed.
Regards, Mildred Achoch.
Check out the Rock 'n' roll film festival, Kenya TV Channel! http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers,
" The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Friday issued the stern warning, saying every Kenyan is responsible for any use of their mobile number in making calls, sending and receiving text messages as well as any financial transactions.
The regulator says all Kenyans must only use registered SIM cards to transact business as they may be culpable in the event that their number is used in the commission of a crime."
Full story here:
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Six-month-jail-term-for- Kenyans-whose-phones-are-used-in-crime/539546-3508084-k51vwl/index.html
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Thank you Wash. There are roles for different stakeholders, not just the consumer. In addition to GG's questions another is the implied shifting of the burden of ensuring the origin, registration and safe use of SIM cards entirely to the consumer, to whom to the notice is addressed. And to echo Mildred, the realities of reporting lost items to the Police, let alone a SIM card should be known to the Regulator. The Regulator should be facilitating more consumer friendly mechanisms for reporting and recovery of lost/stolen SIM cards. Here is a copy of the notice. 2017-01-06 15:47 GMT+03:00 Mildred Achoch <mildandred@gmail.com>:
Thank you Grace.
“In case you lose of your SIM card, report to the nearest police station and demand an abstract."
My question is: could this reporting process be digitalized? Probably, hundreds, if not thousands, of SIM cards are lost every day all over the country. The option of reporting lost SIM cards via sms or online would be very welcomed.
Regards, Mildred Achoch.
Check out the Rock 'n' roll film festival, Kenya TV Channel! http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers,
" The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Friday issued the stern warning, saying every Kenyan is responsible for any use of their mobile number in making calls, sending and receiving text messages as well as any financial transactions.
The regulator says all Kenyans must only use registered SIM cards to transact business as they may be culpable in the event that their number is used in the commission of a crime."
Full story here:
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Six-month-jail-term-for- Kenyans-whose-phones-are-used-in-crime/539546-3508084-k51vwl/index.html
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