Thanks so much Wambua for the update. But please help me understand under what laws and regulations has CCK compelled mobile service providers to switch off those lines and what is CCK doing to ensure that mobile service providers are under obligation to protect the personal information /data that they have received from so many other duly registered mobile phone users? HENRY O. MAINA DIRECTOR ARTICLE 19 KENYA/EASTERN AFRICA P O BOX 2653,00100 NAIROBI TEL:+254 (20) 3862230/2 FAX:+254 (20) 3862231 EMAIL: henry@article19.org ________________________________________ From: kictanet [kictanet-bounces+henry=article19.org@lists.kictanet.or.ke] on behalf of Wambua, Christopher [Wambua@cck.go.ke] Sent: 11 January 2013 04:03 PM To: Henry Maina Cc: Consumer and Public Affairs; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions 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lines have been switched off have up to 90 days to register their SIM cards, failing which their mobile numbers will be withdrawn permanently and subsequently reassigned to new users.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

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   _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/robertyawe%40yahoo.co.... The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.