Government has fixed re-verification fee of SIMs.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is going to started SIM Re-Verification Process in coming few days. Mobile companies are given 90 days by PTA to re-verify the untested SIMs.

According to a report, there are 103 million SIMs for re-verification.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced that the sim user will have to bear a re-verification fee of Rs. 10 per CNIC.

PTA said, if a customer goes to service centre, Franchise or a retailer shop of any company and re-verifies his all SIMs of one CNIC then he will have to pay Rs. 10 for this process.

Mobile Telecom Companies said that the reason about suggesting this verification fee is that this fee will be given to retailer as an incentive. They say that there is no other ways to keep retailers connect with re-verification process. They further said that the retailers may refuse to do work with them due to disturbance in the process.

Telecom companies clearly told ProPakistani that this processing fee of Rs. 10 per transaction will be kept by retailers and operators won’t share a penny from this fee.

Telecom companies are planning that when a customer will do re-verifies the his/her SIM then company will give him/her incentive in the form of Free Minutes, Free SMS and this fee of Rs. 10 will be justified, somehow.

Surely, customer will dislike paying the fee but all this is for everyone’s benefit and for security purposes of country.