The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has warned that it will deactivate all unregistered mobile phones soon.
The telecom authority issued a notification in this regard after State Minister for Posts, Telecom and ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak at a meeting with BTRC officials instructed the latter to deactivate all unregistered mobile phones in the country.
The notice, signed by BTRC spectrum department director Md Sohel Rana, said that the BTRC initiated a process of a full implementation of National Equipment Identity Register (NEIR) to ensure registration of all mobile phones by tagging each phone with national identity and registered SIM card.
The notice mentioned that the purpose of NEIR was to ensure access or delivery of various government services and to stop the use of illegally manufactured or imported phones.
It will ensure revenue collection for the government, the notice said.
At the January 16 meeting, BTRC chairman Md Mohiuddin Ahmed said that the NEIR system was established in the BTRC to prevent fake customer ownership, counterfeit and substandard handset production and import and market manipulation and to curb theft and misuse of mobile phones in the mobile phone industry.
Source: https://www.dhakatribune.com/business/337478/btrc-to-deactivate-unregistered-mobile-phones-soon