Subscribers call on NCC to extend SIM registration deadline

SOME subscribers ofvarious mobilephone networks in Gombe State have appealed to the National Communications Commission (NCC) to extend the deadline for SIM card registration.They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday, in Gombe that the extension would afford those who were yet to register to do so.Messrs Adamu Turaki and Ismail Adamu said there was the need for extension due to some challenges faced by customers during the exercise.They said that they were among those who registered at the beginning of the exercise but was later told that their registration was not successful.Another subscriber, Miss Helen Agom, said that she had registered earlier but was surprised that the same SIM was also registered at another centre, which meant the earlier registration was not successful.She said that some subscribers who had registered were still receiving information from their network providers that they had not registered.She said that the feedback from the network providers had caused a lot of confusion to subscribers.Aishat Mohammed, also a subscriber, said there was the need to extend the exercise because more than 40 per cent of subscribers were yet to register.Mr Segun Akinwale, a registration officer of Glo Network, said that one of the major challenges faced by the network was the failure of some subscribers to give their real names.Mr Akinwale said that some subscribers even refused to answer questions about their parents' names.He said that the network also experienced problem with some under-age children coming to register lines that were not theirs.The National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS), had on Tuesday, appealed to NCC to extend the SIM card registration exercise by 12 months.President of the association, Chief Deolu Ogunbanjo, said the extension would enable the projected 40 per cent unregistered SIM cards subscribers to register their SIMs.The exercise ended yesterday (Wednesday).
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