By JOHN MUTUAMore by this AuthorTelcos have switched off hundreds of thousands of fraudulently registered SIM cards following a directive by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA). Some of the anomalies spotted include SIM cards with multiple registrations under different identity details, serial number length variations in registrations, using passports and alien IDs as well as lack of control by telecommunications operators on their agents. “We wish to confirm that all customers on our network are registered,” Safaricom said in a letter to CA, dated September 17. The CA director-general, Francis Wangusi, on Friday told the Business Daily that Telkom and Airtel had switched off thousands of SIM cards since the directive. Airtel said it switched off 584,134 SIM cards.

Source: Daily Nation September 23, 2018 18:56 UTC