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December 16, 2020 06:10 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/N1WAcIHYktk/nigeria-orders-mobile-users-to-link-phones-to-national-id-numbers
Nigeria Orders Mobile Users To Link Phones To National ID Numbers
Nigeria's telecommunications regulator ordered mobile-phone users to link their devices to their national identity numbers, raising the prospect of millions of lines being blocked. From a report: Subscribers have until Dec. 31 to comply with the requirement, the Nigerian Communications Commission said in a statement Tuesday on its website. Failure to do so will result in their phone lines being cut off in January, it said. Africa's largest economy had about 196 million active phone lines as of June 2020, NCC data shows. At the same time, only 41.5 million Nigerians had the required identity numbers, according to information on the website of the National Identity Management Commission, which is in charge of registrations. MTN Group's local unit is the biggest wireless operator in the West African country. Airtel Africa, which listed in Lagos and London last year, vies with local operator Globacom to be the country's second-biggest carrier.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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