SIM boxing and unpacking a crime syndicate, By Suleiman Bala Bakori

THE introduction of THE linking of National Identify Numbers (NIN) has SIM cards East A path THE Federal Government has work has tackle This criminal business. With each SIM card In THE country be related has A NIN, A identify East related has THE owner of each double, And regulators NOW to have THE visibility of ownership. That East not all. There East Also THE "Max-4 Ruler," Or A subscriber East not allowed has to have more that four lines by network operator, related has her NIN.

Boxes to have A multitude of uses, And THE word "box" ready himself has miscellaneous contexts. For “Ajala Travelers, » THE box East A need For keeping goods For their unending travel. In literature, idiomatically, he can be said that "A has has been canned In A corner;" another could say has agreement with A enigma: "think out THE box;" SO there East THE "from Pandora box" that No A wanna open. HAS "box her ears" refers to has A hit on THE head, especially around her ears. For those WHO celebrate Christmas, "Boxing Day," which East THE 26 of December, THE second day of Christmas, East not has be joked with: A day has unpack gifts. SO a lot For THE box.

Another type of boxes exist In THE telecommunications world: THE SIM card box. To have You Never received A international call but saw A local phone number ring In? That East SIM card boxing In action. To leave Me explain.

SIM card boxing arrived When A person uses A special equipment, What East called A SIM card Box containing tens has hundreds of SIM card cards — Since 32 has 96 has 512 And more SIM cards — has end international calls by bringing In THE call In THE SIM card box using the Internet Connections And regenerating THE calls has THE called to party Since A of THE hundred SIM cards In THE box. This path, THE called to party will see THE local number of THE SIM card Since THE SIM card box, And not THE original international number call.

With SIM card boxes, THE union charges international call carriers lower rates that What regular Nigerian telecommunications the operators would be, as they TO DO not to have has pay THE complete cost of maintain And Operating A phone network. Basically, they are get around THE normal itinerary For international phone call Termination has end international calls cheap And TO DO bargain profits disabled that.

Take, For example, A telecommunications operator In Nigeria would be usually charge international carriers ten cents by minute For to end A international call In Nigeria. However, by routing THE call through A SIM card boxing union, THE international telecommunications carrier only pay A fraction of THE charge has THE union, say 5 cents by minute, And do not to have has pay THE complete ten cents by minute charge. THE SIM card boxer will end This call has THE called subscriber has A rate of, say, N15 by minute, using A of THE SIM card cards In their SIM card box. THE SIM card boxer Thus makes A murder Since THE differential between THE rate accused has THE international carrier And THE rate paid has telecommunications the operators, of which SIM card they to use In their SIM card boxes, has THE costs of OUR national security And income of mobile network the operators And quality of OUR service has consumers.

Apart THE income loss that local mobile network the operators suffer courtesy of THE activities of these trade unions, networks confront congestion around areas Or THE illegal call routes via SIM card boxing occurs. With THE huge traffic Since THE boxes, callers around THE area see more abandoned calls, poor call quality, And Slow down data speeds.