Mobile Phone Identification made Easy

Mobile phone companies have embarked on a door to door procedure to make identification possible for all.
For some months now the Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Biyiti bi Essam has instituted a new procedure to get all Cameroonians to identify themselves with their mobile telephone numbers. That is Orange, Mobile Telecommunication Network, MTN and CAMTEL numbers were to be identified with their users. This exercise was supposed to last for six months after which unidentified numbers will be suspended and finally their communication ceased.
In the past six months the mobile phone companies prescribed the identification procedure to be carried out. The customers had to bring a photocopy of their identity cards, a passport size photograph stapled on the photocopy, their numbers written and neighbourhood of the customer. This document was to be deposited in any registration boot where the customer is subscribed.
The procedure was not very easy and made identification slower than expected, especially for workers who had no time to make stops at the identification boots.
By the time the deadline expired in November, three months were added and the month of February is said to be the last month. These companies have now adopted a new procedure to reach out to everybody. This is a door to door approach. Some young boys and girls are sent out to do the job. The customer does not need to give a passport size photography or photocopy of his identity card. The young people who went round from office to office to meet Orange subscribers collected only photocopies of identity cards with phone numbers written on them and the neighbourhood of customers while MTN customers were snapped on the spot and their identity cards snapped too. But at the available boots put in town, for those who can make it there, the customer is snapped with a webcam and their identity cards scanned and numbers registered.
Through the new procedure it is believed majority customers would have registered before the stated deadline.
EFFA TAMBENKONGHO