The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced plans to deploy mobile SIM Registration Units to major markets, motor parks and other public places that attract high volumes of human traffic.
The move is aimed at ensuring that as many subscribers are covered in the current SIM Registration exercise in Nigeria.
The commission assured that it will intensify enlightenment campaign on the on-going nationwide SIM registration exercise, just as it said some of the registration agents will move around with mobile units to cover areas that may not have fixed registration centres in any particular location such as markets and similar places.
The commission had last March flagged off the six-month nationwide SIM registration exercise which will end on 28 September, 2011.
Head of Media and Public Relations of the Commission, Reuben Muoka, during an interaction with ICT correspondents in Abuja, said the current campaign would include radio jingles in local languages telling subscribers the location of SIM Card registration centres in all the states of the federation as well published in key national dailies and the commission’s website.
He said SIM Card registration centres will continue to grow in various states of the federation.
In the NCC SIM registration centres, subscribers are able to register all their SIM cards irrespective of which network they use, at the same registration centre.
But the commission said all those who have already registered with their telecom service providers need not come for the registration as the one undertaken by the operators would be collated for the same purpose at the central data base for all subscribers in the country.
By Simeon Ogoegbulem
