In a bid to crack down on sale of illegally procured mobile phones, the government will introduce a system under which the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards of telecom companies will not function in unregistered mobile devices.
Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) is preparing a guideline to enforce such a system to render useless handsets that arrive in the market via illegal channels. In a simpler sense, mobile phones whose International Mobile Equipment Identity number is not registered at NTA will not accept SIM cards of any telecom companies once the authority enforces the system.
Min Prasad Aryal, spokesperson for NTA, said the authority would appoint a third party to develop the system to render inoperable unregistered handsets soon. Aryal said the third party firm would connect its system to the network of all telecom companies in the country and make SIM cards in unregistered handsets dysfunctional. Aryal said the new system would be implemented within a few months. “We’ll be submitting guideline to enforce the system to the Cabinet soon,” said Aryal.
Source: THT
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