This move is expected to enhance the telecoms industry’s capacity to combat robocalling and other unwanted or fraudulent calls.
GSMA Chief Technical Officer, Alex Sinclair, said the US Federal Communications Commission recently said fraudulent robocall schemes costs American about $10 billion yearly, with most perpetrators operating overseas. Though, the Nigerian Communications Commission had been able to stem the tide, Nigeria had in the last three and half years battle call masking, call refilling and SIM boxing, which are all targeted at fraudulent call services.
According to experts, SIM boxing fraud costs the industry to lose about $3 billion in revenue yearly. The Chief Executive Officer, NCC, Prof Garba Danbatta, had described call masking as a phenomenon, whereby an international call is masked to appear as a local call on any GSM network in Nigeria while SIM Boxing on the other hand refers to electronic boxes or devices with multiple SIMs that have the capacity to terminate calls at local interconnect rates.
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