Design and Development of a Unified Subscrbers' Sim Registration Platform Using Top-Down Approach
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2016-12-02
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Department of Library and Information Technology, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria
Abstract
Compulsory SIM registration in Nigeria started in 2008 in response to several mobile crimes being perpetrated by fraudsters and also to improve service delivery. The decentralized systems currently in use in the country lack flexibility to register heterogeneous SIM cards and encourage multiple registrations. This work, the “design and development of a centralized, unified subscribers‟ SIM registration platform” therefore seeks to address these loopholes. The work employs top-down design approach using HTML, PHP, JAVASCRIPT, CSS, and MySQL as development tools. The new system surpasses the existing one as it is able to register all SIM cards of the four (4) major telecommunication operators in Nigeria and verify if a SIM had already been registered thus bringing stability, flexibility, and single platform for all. It is recommended that SIM card availability/sales on the road side should be stopped or such SIM cards be denied access to network until they are properly registered.
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In a world where people‟s appetites for committing crimes already are insatiable, the emergence of communication technologies, particularly mobile technologies in a way, have only made matters worse for it. So many people have fallen victim to these mobile fraudsters already. This has become an eyesore of some sort as even the downtrodden are not spared. Something rather urgent must be done to stop/ rescue this appalling trend. Unfortunately, since the launch of GSM services in 2001 till around early 2008, it wasn‟t required to register SIM cards, a situation that profited many mobile fraudsters with no consequences since they could not be traced by their respective numbers. Consequently, in the first quarter of 2008, security agencies, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), mobile telecoms operators, telecoms associations, the Nigerian Identity Management Commission, National Population Commission, media and a host of others held a consultative forum where it was agreed that SIM card registration should commence immediately
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Multiple SIMs, SIM registration, status verification, NCC, Subscribers