ABSTRACT:
The relevance of Information and Communication Technology in our routine activities cannot be over emphasized; hence there is need for daily, weekly or monthly communication among us. The introduction of Global Satellite for Communication (GSM) and the internet is a welcomed development that has eased our schedules which can be done within a predefined period. In addition the issue of security has to be taken into considerations while using some of these technological innovations. As a result of usage of mobile for communications and to ensure security of lives and properties, there is a need for a secured database of mobile phone subscribers in order to help the government most especially in securing a nation as most recently the issue of insurgencies, militancy, kidnapping and other vices that are causing disharmony, anarchy in our society today. In view of all these challenges, this paper proposes an implementable framework for unifying or integrating the nations Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) registration activities in view of solving the issue of multiple registrations by mobile phone subscribers, in-adequate database and constant collections of subscriber’s details while registering another SIM. More so benefits of the proposal herein are enormous to stakeholders in the Nigerian Telecommunication Industry which include reduction in time, cost and resources expended during and after SIM registration.
Keywords: Subscriber, SIM Registration, Centralized Database, Mobile Network Operators, Telecommunication Industry, Nigeria
