'SIM Information System': mobile operators asked to conduct verification before May 17

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed cellular mobile operators to take all possible measures for verification of SIMs of their subscribers within the specified time period through "SIM Information System 668".
In this connection, mobile operators are launching a massive campaign to rectify the inaccuracies in the data of mobile users' antecedents. They are running awareness campaigns through media and will send SMS to the subscribers asking them to get their SIMs identity corrected from Customer Service Centres of concerned mobile operators. All unverified and unregistered SIMs shall be blocked by May 17, 2011.
PTA has introduced "SIM information System 668" for verification of mobile SIMs. Through this service, a subscriber can send his CNIC to 668 through SMS and in return would receive detail of total SIMs against his CNIC along-with name of the mobile company. In case there is any discrepancy, the user would visit CSC to get the data corrected. If he does not get his SIM cleared it would be blocked by May 17, 2011. This is part of PTA efforts to block all illegal SIMs and clean data of mobile users.
It may be noted that while continuing its campaign against unnamed and unregistered SIMs and during phase 1 and phase 2, PTA has blocked total 16.3 million unregistered SIMs. After the introduction of "789 SIM Activation System" in February 2009, only nine activated SIMs are available in the market. 3.8 million SIM activation requests have so far been rejected on the basis of incorrect information.-PR