A huge number of pre-paid mobile phone users in Pakistan may lose their connections since telecom operators have expressed their “inability” to re-verify the subscribers within a 28-day deadline set by the government. The telecom operators had sought 150-200 more days for completion of the re-verification process. Otherwise, they say, they will have to block the pre-paid SIMs (subscriber identification modules) to meet the deadline, Dawn online reported citing a source in the industry. According to the source, there are about 140 million SIMs in the country and only 10 percent of them are post-paid ones. The interior ministry...
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