Illegal SIMS Blocked in Pakistan

by MJK on May 29, 2008

PTA According the news emerging, the PTA has blocked 4.5 million illegal sims. The illegal SIMS includes all those sims which can not be verified by the respective authorities in the GSM operators. The PTA has given ample time to all the operators to verify their SIMS and ensure that they are registered in the names of their true owners. The verification process will have a lot of advantages for both security related agencies and will seriously curtain illegal/misuse of cell phones.

The majority of the SIM phones blocked were of Ufone as a total of 2.32 million of its sims have been blocked. The second on the list is Mobilink whose 1.86 million sims have been blocked while 276,000 sims of Warid and 50,150 sims of Telenor have been blocked.

There are 3 million further sims which will be blocked if they are not verified in time.

LAHORE, May 28: On the instruction of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the cellular companies have finally blocked over 4.5 million mobile phone SIMs (subscriber identity module) for lack of ownership verification.
PTA Lahore spokesman Mustafa Kamal confirmed that over 4.5 million â€˜unverifiedâ€™ cell phone connections had been blocked by May 27.
He said the process of SIM verification continued and more connections issued either on fake or unverifiable documents would be blocked shortly.
Of the SIMs blocked so far, 2.32 million belonged to Ufone, 1.86 million to Mobilink, 276,000 to Warid and 50,150 of Telenor
According to PTA record available with Dawn, the number of cell phone connections which have been verified so far are; 28.2 million of Mobilink, 12.6 million of Ufone, 15.6 million of Telenor and two million of CMPak Continue…