Most Nigerians woke to discover their MTN lines being bared.
Numerous MTN Nigeria subscribers have taken to social media to decry the telecom’s decision to bar their telephone lines over NIN-SIM linkage without prior warning. Many users of the South African telephone service provider woke up to the reality that they could not make or receive telephone calls or access the Internet.
An affected subscriber, Shina, informed Technext that he became aware of his line’s status when he tried to make a telephone call early in the day: “I just heard a voice prompt that informed me that my line has been barred because I failed to link my NIN to my line. It also told me to visit the nearest MTN shop to reconnect my line”, the source added.
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This reflects the experience of many other subscribers who have taken particularly to social media platform, X to complain. Many users indicated that they noticed the action in the early hours of this morning. Most of them claimed that they had completed the linkage exercise in the past with pieces of evidence.
Another wrote….
“We deserve to be treated with respect and dignity in this country. I’m extremely disappointed that my MTN line, which I’ve used faithfully for over 10 years, was suddenly barred this morning without any prior notification. Ive lost count of how many times I’ve linked it to my NIN”
“This stupid @MTNNG barred my MTN line of over 16yrs this morning when in fact, my line is linked to My NIN.
I’ve reached out to them via whatsapp and Twitter but no response. For una own good, Make una undo this erroneous mistake or else, na for una office my protest go start.”
MTN are yet to issue an official response to this….