PTA blocked 875,000 unverified SIMs - More to be, if not Verified

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked as many as 875,000 mobile SIMs in connection with unverified mobile connections on Wednesday.

The authority has already blocked 16.2 million unregistered and unverified SIMs and mobile connections during Phase-I and Phase-II of SIM Information System-668, said a press release of PTA here on Wednesday.

After the completion of Phase-I and Phase-II only 16.78 million connections out of 105 million were left over to re-verify their antecedents.