Deactivated SIM Card:: NATCOMS urges members to take advantage of NCC new window

Following the plea of the National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) and Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), the industry regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) may have granted deactivated subscribers over the non-registration of their SIM cards another window to make amend.

This is coming as NATCOMS urged subscribers affected by the deactivation process to take advantage of this new window.

Speaking to ITRealms, Monday, NATCOMS president, Chief Deolu Ogunbanjo noted that the appeals by both NATCOMS and ALTON to NCC and Ministry of Communication Technology must have paved the way to the latest ground of NCC.

Ogunbanjo also pointed out that on Saturday, July 6, 2013, he was on NTA Network Live Interview with Tony Ojobo of NCC a new SIM Card Registration window for subscribers opened for those affected by deactivation of their SIM cards.

According to him, the NCC latest window is now the only opportunity for disconnected subscribers in Nigeria to have their SIM Cards registered re-activation.

Subscribers whose’ SIM Cards have been deactivated, he said, are advised to go to the nearest Customer Care Centre of their network operator for registration and subsequent re-activation.

Already, he emphasized, Communications Service Providers (CSP’s) are encouraging disconnected subscribers to come and register their SIM Cards and get between N5,000 and N10,000 as re-activation bonus for on-net calls.

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