Powersurge:


I don't share your view. Think about it from a business perspective. It requires maintenance to keep a line viable. It makes no sense to keep maintaining a line that has no activity. Besides, they are not sharing your information. And by recycling the line, it has no security link to you afterwards as your personal data would have been stripped from the SIM. Nobody will be able to reach or defraud you in anyway through that said line.

Powersurge:


I don't share your view. Think about it from a business perspective. It requires maintenance to keep a line viable. It makes no sense to keep maintaining a line that has no activity. Besides, they are not sharing your information. And by recycling the line, it has no security link to you afterwards as your personal data would have been stripped from the SIM. Nobody will be able to reach or defraud you in anyway through that said line.

Successdude:


Please how can someone sue these firms ? I'm damn serious.

What sort of nonsense is this one kwanu

Powersurge:


I don't share your view. Think about it from a business perspective. It requires maintenance to keep a line viable. It makes no sense to keep maintaining a line that has no activity. Besides, they are not sharing your information. And by recycling the line, it has no security link to you afterwards as your personal data would have been stripped from the SIM. Nobody will be able to reach or defraud you in anyway through that said line.

voltron14:


So you want MTN to continue hosting your identity in their database, continue sending messages of all sorts to your line, continue securing your line whilst you pay absolutely nothing for 1 year?

chloride6:


If you like don't active keep my line

rottennaija:


Then it's a foolish law. You cannot tell me that sims linked to my bank for otp and other financial accounts will be transferred to another owner because I didn't use it for 3 months to 1 years. You can call it entitlement mentality all you want, this is common sense.

Sleekfingers:




Why won't you use your sim card in a year? Mtn is a business company. How do you expect them to make money, if you don't call with your line, buy data

ppogba:


That is why I said the sense in the whole exercise should be tested in the court of law. Remember, the law will not consider sentiment from both parties and will judge as it deem necessary. That is why we have so many issues in Nigeria especially with government agencies and corporate bodies doing " what they feel is right and convinient for them.
I may be just a lay man but I feel cancelling the number outright will not be a bad idea. After all 1,2,3 up to a trillion has not been exhausted.

It is doable especially if you consider the fact that it is this same MTN that told us that per second billing is not possible. Here we are today.

Fut9ure:

What if I nor dey Nigeria again

ArchiLimited:
Even a kindergartner will know this message cannot be directly from MTN. MTN cannot send these kind of messages to it's registered subscriber. This is the work of one mischievous person that has been pushed to nairaland front page without verification. Even the grammar used in the message is awful

rottennaija:


Then it's a foolish law. You cannot tell me that sims linked to my bank for otp and other financial accounts will be transferred to another owner because I didn't use it for 3 months to 1 years. You can call it entitlement mentality all you want, this is common sense.

Fut9ure:

Person tell you say him nor dey Nigeria

Take for example him travel abroad

Shebi the person go fit put the sim for phone that side take make call

bobbiiee:
If half of their subscribers boycott their services for a month. Wisdom will dawn on them.

I don't understand why organizations arrive at policies without using their brain. My mum wanted to do transfer from 1st bank to another bank. She said they won't give her audience because of the sum she's transferring. I asked her for the sum, she said 82k, I told her I will show them vawulence at counter.

Getting there, the teller she approached said, ma, you can use your phone to transfer it. I screamed at him and every teller there.

Expecting 80 year old woman to be doing her bank transfers online is wickedness. Is it every youth that has a smartphone? Is it everyone that has data? How can you tell me that you attend to customers transferring 200k and above?

They brought out transfer form. Yes, the problem was not caused by those tellers. The useless bank came up with stupid and unfriendly policies.

Let us boycott mtn for a month and see who wins.

situations:
my Question is if I purchase MTN data from a vendor but not directly from mtn does that count as revenue generation ? Or the gono deactivate sim I only use MTN for data not calls

ppogba:


That is why I said the sense in the whole exercise should be tested in the court of law. Remember, the law will not consider sentiment from both parties and will judge as it deem necessary. That is why we have so many issues in Nigeria especially with government agencies and corporate bodies doing " what they feel is right and convinient for them.
I may be just a lay man but I feel cancelling the number outright will not be a bad idea. After all 1,2,3 up to a trillion has not been exhausted.

It is doable especially if you consider the fact that it is this same MTN that told us that per second billing is not possible. Here we are today.

Powersurge:


I don't share your view. Think about it from a business perspective. It requires maintenance to keep a line viable. It makes no sense to keep maintaining a line that has no activity. Besides, they are not sharing your information. And by recycling the line, it has no security link to you afterwards as your personal data would have been stripped from the SIM. Nobody will be able to reach or defraud you in anyway through that said line.

Fut9ure:


Okay

Take for example I buy my sim card when I was in Nigeria...after I don link everything with nin, bvn and email and bank alert

Then before this empty hen law come out like this I don already travel to Canada


Wetin you say make I do

I nor go fit put the sim card for phone for Canada make he dey active na

edoairways:

No it doesn't

ShaqFu:
But the said number will already have the owners NIN. So if they recycle the number, the NIN, BVN etc will automatically disappear?

edoairways:

Recycling of SIM card is not restricted to Nigeria alone, it is something some countries practice. To answer your question, MTN Nigeria said you should pay a fee of N500 to retain your line. Don't forget they incurr some cost to host it. N500 yearly fee will not be a bad idea. You can issue a standing order for them to deduct N500 yearly to keep your line

Bobbyjay001:


Please, how do I active "keep my line?"

Fut9ure:

What if I nor dey Nigeria again

seunayantokun:


N500 tax to MTN justifiable?
Wherever disconnection is practised abroad can never be compared to Nigeria where there is no adequate and correct laws in place to protect people and private businesses.
Do you know MTN once told us per second billing was never possible? They are here to exploit and steal because they know anything goes in Nigeria. That's roguery, not honest business. What MTN can do is tell their customers who want to keep their lines to use it by spending at least N500 recharge on it annually. Are the cost of maintenance not factored into billing already? What kind of trash is that? If fraud occurs as a result of disconnection, how do you defend that in court?