LAHORE, May 6: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has advised the mobile phone subscribers to visit customer service centres of the mobile operator concerned to get their SIM data corrected if there is any discrepancy.

A press release issued here on Friday said the PTA sought subscribers’ cooperation in streamlining of SIMs’ data to achieve target of 100 per cent correct data.

It also directed the cellular mobile operators to take all possible measures for the verification of post and prepaid mobile connections of their subscribers within specified time through “SIM information System 668”.

The PTA introduced the system for the verification and correction of mobile SIMs data. “Through this service a subscriber can send his CNIC to 668 through SMS and in return he would receive detail of total SIMs against his CNIC alongwith name of the mobile company.

“In case there is any discrepancy, the user should visit CSC along with original CNIC to get the data corrected. The SIMs not corrected will be blocked after May 17.” The PTA said during last three years it had launched a number of campaigns through print and electronic media for the awareness of mobile users on this issue and it was still engaged in such activities.

“During the third phase of this campaign, mobile subscribers have shown great interest in having their SIM data corrected through 668 and operators are getting encouraging response.

“This is final stage of correction of SIM data and operators are receiving 400,000 applications daily in this regard,” it said.