On 16 January 2012 10:28, Bright Onapito <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Ronnie, > I feel your pain, but I must say this process is long over due! It is a > mandatory procedure for every teleco to register all its subscribers. UCC > was abit lenient to all these guys in the first place. If you go many > countries, you just can't walk into a shop and buy a sim card like we do > it in UG. In as much as it might appear as a 'breech of privacy' I believe > it is a move aimed at protecting you and me. Imagine your phone was stolen > and sold to whoever. *As soon as they put in their sim card it will be > quite easy to for starters know who is using your stolen phone*. That's a > plus for starters isn't it? > Cheers! > > Maybe you're seeing something I'm not, but how does SIM card registration help get a stolen phone back? -- Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given credit.
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