By GIDEON NYENDWAABOUT 2.1 million non-compliant sim cards have been deactivated by Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) as of March 7, 2022, ZICTA Consumer Protection and Compliance Manager, Edgar Mlauzi, has said.Mr Mlauzi said the deregistered sim cards were those for subscribers who had more than 10 sim cards registered under one name.He said that ZICTA had given a directive to mobile service providers that each subscriber should not have more than 10 sim cards registered under their name and the information was communicated to their customers on time.Mr Mlauzi said that from the time the 2.1 million sim cards were deactivated the number of unsolicited messages that were coming from scammers requesting for money had also reduced.He also said that the rise in the number of non-complaint sim cards was a result of the agents from the mobile service providers used to sell pre-registered sim cards to the members of the public […]
ZICTA deactivates 2.1 million sim cards
