STAFF REPORT ISLAMABAD: In a comprehensive effort to register the SIMs against CNICs of the actual users, The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has initiated intelligent blocking from May 18, 2011 where 0.875 million left over targeted mobile connections has been blocked as a first batch.
“During the intelligent blocking a particular SIM/connection shall only be allowed to call 789 for re-verification of user’s antecedents,” says an official of the telecom watchdog while talking to media here last week.
The 789 system is an automated real time verification system where a customer has to approach Call Center of the concerned mobile company by dialing short code 789 and re-register & verify his antecedents, he said.
He said that for SIMs re-verification, a centralized database has been maintained at PTA where the information is being provided by mobile operators on monthly basis and updated accordingly.
Till now, in a process of cleaning of mobile subscribers’ data, a total of 16.2 million unregistered/unverified SIMs/mobile connections have already been blocked during Phase-I and Phase-II of SIM Information System – 668.
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