NIN-SIM linkage: Telecom subscribers make fresh demands as deadline elapses

Nigerian telecom users have requested a 30-day extension of the National Identity Number and Subscriber Identity/Identification Module linkage deadline from mobile network operators and the Nigerian Communications Commission.

Adeolu Ogunbanjo, the national president of NATCOMS, the National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers, revealed this to ZINGTIE over the phone on Wednesday.

He pointed out that telecom consumers require more time to finish their NIN-SIM linkage to prevent being disconnected by their mobile network operators.

“It is a terrible time for telecom subscribers in Nigeria as the NIN-SIM linkage deadline expired on February 28. I want to use this medium to appeal to operators and NCC to give subscribers an additional 30-day grace period,” he said.

As previously reported by ZINGTIE, telecom operators had pushed for a deadline of February 28 to prohibit subscribers without NIN-SIM linkage in December, citing NCC regulations.

The regulators had stated that the action was required to control the nation’s growing level of insecurity.

Former Communications and Digital Economy Minister Isa Pantami announced the SIM card integration policy into the NIN database in December 2020.

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