Commission , was demonstrated recently when a delegation from the Congo-Brazzaville Telecommunications Regulations Authority visited the NCC on a benchmarking tour.
In the letter written to the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Congolese regulator had indicated interest to gain more insights into three areas of NCC’s regulatory activities, namely, management of issues associated with Quality of Service , SIM Boxing and Call Masking, as well as telecom equipment type-approval process.
On the type-approval process, Wakil stated that the Commission had developed a rigorous type-approval process to ensure that telecoms equipment, including terminal devices, manufactured in line with international standards and specifications are brought into the country.
However, Nwokonneya itemised solutions to SIM Boxing fraud from a regulatory perspective. He declared that regulators can deploy anti-SIM boxing and call masking solutions, be proactive and effective in monitoring and enforcement, collaboration with the industry and law enforcement agencies, capacity building through training and skill acquisition programmes, as well as a review of the Enforcement Regulations and enabling laws.
The NCC Directors also reiterated that the Commission is also taking strategic actions on SIM Registration, the National Identification Number and the Subscriber Identity Module linkage policy. The NCC team informed the visitors that a maximum of four SIM numbers are permissible to be registered per subscriber per network requirement. This is another measure deployed by the NCC to tackle SIMBoxing which usually requires multiple SIMs to flourish.