Consumers Commend NCC's Draft Bill

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Telecommunications consumers in Lagos have commended the draft bill by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) which prescribes a penalty of N1m per  subscriber for any unauthorized use of subscriber information generated by a telecommunications operator or Subscriber Identification Module card  registration solution provider.

The NCC draft recommendation is part of a draft regulation on SIM card registration which also prescribes, a penalty of N200, 000 per subscriber for failure  of the operators and providers to capture all the necessary subscriber information.

The draft also recommends that any operator or SIM card registration solution provider that retains information on any subscriber instead of transmitting  such to the central database to be run by the National Identity Management Commission is also liable to a penalty of N200,000.

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Some respondents  told Consumers’ Advocate that the recommendation was a good one as it will prevent telecoms companies from illegally disclosing people’s  data to a third party.

Kate Bensiah, a final year student of the Lagos State University said: “That is the kind of check that should be put on these telecoms companies else they  would mess up with our private lives. Once the telecoms companies know that they will be legally held accountable for unauthorized information disclosure,  they will definitely sit up”

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