[kictanet] Update on the switch off of unregistered SIM cards

[Wambua, Christopher]

Listers,  

 

More than 2.4 million unregistered SIM cards switched off 

 

The four local mobile operators have to date switched off more than 2.4
million unregistered SIM cards.

  

According to statistics gathered from mobile operators, a total of
2,408,266 unregistered mobile lines had, by January 8, been switched
off, barely a week after the expiry of the December 31 deadline.

 

Safaricom has disconnected a total of 1.2 million unregistered SIM
cards. Orange and Airtel have disconnected 520,000 and 365,266
unregistered lines, respectively. YuMobile on the other hand has
switched off 323,000 SIM cards. 

 

Subscribers whose lines have been switched off have up to 90 days to
register their SIM cards, failing which their mobile numbers will be
withdrawn permanently and subsequently reassigned to new users.  

 

Below is disaggregated data on the switch off:

 

Operator

Registered Subscribers

Suspended Subscribers

28th Dec 2012

8th Jan 2013

28th Dec 2012

8th Jan 2013

Airtel

3,877,475

4,347,765

70,830

365,266

Orange

2,106,250

2,160,873

120,010

520,000

Safaricom

17,200,000

17,290,000

800,000

1,200,000

YuMobile

2,353,106

2,440,000

290,000

323,000

Total

25,536,831

26,238,638

 

1,280,840

2,408,266

 

 

Christopher Wambua

Manager/Communications

Consumer and Public Affairs Division 

Communications Commission of Kenya

P.O. Box 14448, NAIROBI 00800

KENYA

 

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