NCC Cautions Subscribers Against Double Registration

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Thursday in Abuja advised mobile phone subscribers to either register with it or their respective service providers.

NCC’s Head of Media, Mr Reuben Muoka, said the commission was still going to liaise with the service providers at the close of the registration.

“The commission will collect all the data from the service providers and merge them together for one record.

“So, it is advisable that a subscriber register once, and it should be either with the NCC or the service operator,’’ he said.

Muoka also disclosed that the names of all registered subscribers would likely be published at the end of the registration exercise.

“We will take any appropriate action, either to publish the names or send messages to the subscribers asking them to walk in to get their data,’’ he said.

The NCC Head of Media however said that the commission was yet to take decision on the approach to adopt.

He said the commission had already warned service providers to desist from sending text messages to subscribers on the status of their registration.

Muoka said service providers would be wasting their resources by sending text messages to subscribers, as the NCC was yet to update its central data centre.