LAHORE: SIM users have to lose their connections in a great number due to lack of co-operation between NADRA and cellular companies. During Bio-metric verification data could not be verified from NADRA causing a big loss for users.
Even after the provision of NADRA CNIC card form user and thumb impression verification, many thousands SIMs were blocked by mobile companies.
Million rupees mobile balance of users lost as the SIMs were blocked by company. Mobile users are unhappy with this decision as they say that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had ensured that mobile SIMs will not be blocked immediately but companies have unregistered many SIMs.
One mobile SIM user told that “PTA had ensured through media that till the verification from NADRA mobile SIMs will stay functional but a surprise was received when my SIM was unregistered,” he further said that “the mistake was at NADRA end.”
It is pertinent to mention that the bio-metric verification of SIMs was the requirement of intelligence agencies under the National Action Plan to ensure security and to trace terrorists’ network in the country.
Mobile companies had, then, raised a question about international roaming service availed by the terrorists and told PTA that this is not the way to trace terrorists in the country however the updated data was the requirement of intelligence agencies.
