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

[robert yawe]

Somebody needs to take the government to court for disenfranchising poor Kenyans who did not have money to go to the nearest dealer to register their SIMs as they needed the money to celebrate Christmas, this is definitely the work of regressive forces who are out to stop the complete implementation of the new constitution especially the section on human rights.  

Exactly how does the government expect those 2.4 million Kenyans, many of who recently registered as voters, will be able to check if they are in the register of the IEBC, this is how they are planning to rig the elections, in addition how will they check the results of their children who recently sat their KCPE and KCSE results if their phones have been turned off.

I say the government should send money to those people who have not registered their SIMs so that they can take a taxi to their preferred customer service center to register.

Naomba Siri kali. 


 
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696


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 From: "Wambua, Christopher" <Wambua at cck.go.ke>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk 
Cc: Consumer and Public Affairs <CPA at cck.go.ke>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
Sent: Friday, 11 January 2013, 16:03
Subject: [kictanet] Update on the switch off of unregistered SIM cards
 

  
 
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their mobile numbers will be withdrawn permanently and subsequently reassigned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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