More than 180 million telephone lines are now linked with the National Identity Numbers (NIN). The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Danbatta, revealed this on Tuesday during the Commission’s Public Inquiry on three Regulatory Instruments on the Rule Making Process in Abuja.
Addressing key stakeholders, the EVC further stated that SIM-NIN link-up was made possible following the capturing of over 64 million Nigerians by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in the National Identity Numbers (NIN) database.
The EVC said that statistics indicated that the telecommunications industry had bounced back with broadband penetration peaking at 41 percent while active telephone subscribers had increased by over one million.
Prof. Danbatta had recently said with the deployment of over 1,500 NIN enrolment outlets by Mobile Number Operators (MNOs), the number of enrolments would increase significantly.
