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Unregistered mobile customers disconnected
02 Mar 2011 at 08:59hrs | Views
ZIMBABWE'S three mobile phone companies at midnight began disconnecting customers who failed to register their sim cards by Monday's deadline.
No figures were immediately available of how many more subscribers had registered by Monday night, but the networks have been ordered to stop services to unregistered users.
The mobile operators – Econet, Telecel and Net One – have used notices on radio, television and newspapers to raise awareness of the registration deadline.
Requiring mobile phone users to register has the potential to stall telecommunications' spectacular growth of recent years, according to the forecast group IHS Global Insight.
"The introduction of mandatory registration of SIM cards in at least 10 countries has resulted in a dramatic slowdown in subscriber growth and will see the disconnection of millions of unregistered subscribers," IHS Global Insight said in a recent report.
No figures were immediately available of how many more subscribers had registered by Monday night, but the networks have been ordered to stop services to unregistered users.
The mobile operators – Econet, Telecel and Net One – have used notices on radio, television and newspapers to raise awareness of the registration deadline.
Requiring mobile phone users to register has the potential to stall telecommunications' spectacular growth of recent years, according to the forecast group IHS Global Insight.
"The introduction of mandatory registration of SIM cards in at least 10 countries has resulted in a dramatic slowdown in subscriber growth and will see the disconnection of millions of unregistered subscribers," IHS Global Insight said in a recent report.
Source - Byo24News
