{"id":33320,"date":"2020-12-10T18:11:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T18:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33320"},"modified":"2020-12-10T18:11:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T18:11:57","slug":"ncc-orders-mobile-network-operators-to-suspend-sale-registration-of-new-sim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ncc-orders-mobile-network-operators-to-suspend-sale-registration-of-new-sim","title":{"rendered":"NCC orders mobile network operators to suspend sale, registration of new SIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has ordered mobile network operators to instantly suspend the sale and activation of new Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards in order to ensure the audit of the Subscriber Registration Database (SRD).<\/p>\n<p>The NCC Director of Public Affairs, Ikechukwu Adinde, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, urged the operators to comply with the directive until the audit exercise was completed.<\/p>\n<p>The NCC official said the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, authorised the commission to implement the audit of the SRD.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ ALSO: NCC endorses e-SIM trial for MTN, 9Mobile<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Adinde, however, said the NCC could grant a request for exemption following an approval by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlouting the directive would attract strict penalties including the possibility of forfeiting the operating licence of the errant mobile network operator,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the NCC directive was important given the prevalence of pre-registered SIMs across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has ordered mobile network operators to instantly suspend the sale and activation of new Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards in order to ensure the audit of the Subscriber Registration Database (SRD). The NCC Director of Public Affairs, Ikechukwu Adinde, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,28,26],"tags":[1570,1922,101,254,1921],"class_list":["post-33320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-danbatta","tag-ncc","tag-nigeria","tag-sim"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NCC orders mobile network operators to suspend sale, registration of new SIM - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ncc-orders-mobile-network-operators-to-suspend-sale-registration-of-new-sim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NCC orders mobile network operators to suspend sale, registration of new SIM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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