Reps ask NCC to extend period for reassignment of inactive phone numbers

The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to widen the waiting play earlier inactive telephone numbers are reassigned to caller users to 1 twelvemonth and six months.

The lawmakers said the determination would fortify compliance with the Data Protection Act, 2023, and support Nigerians from fraud, individuality theft, and wrongful transgression allegations linked to reassigned SIM cards.

The solution followed the adoption of a question sponsored by the subordinate representing Orhionmwon/Uhunmwode Federal Constituency of Edo State, Billy Osawaru, during today’s plenary.

Osawaru projected that the further six months should let for inactive SIM cards owed for reallocation to beryllium publically announced successful nationalist newspapers and reported to the constabulary erstwhile oregon doubly annually.

“The House is alert the said guidelines mandate the web providers to deactivate and reallocate inactive SIM cards and telephone numbers,” helium said.

He noted that the measurement would amended transparency and marque it easier to resoluteness transgression oregon fraudulent cases arising from SIM paper reassignment.

“The House is besides aware, arsenic claimed by web providers, that it is not financially sustainable oregon profitable for them to clasp inactive SIM cards connected their web contempt being registered with the ...