THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI MILIND DEORA)
(a) & (b) Yes, Madam. The company wise details are as below:
Telecom Service No of cases for sale of Number of such SIM
provider preactivated prepaid/postpaid cards issued by them mobile SIM cards in bulk
Bharti Airtel Limited 1023 1092
Dishnet Wireless ltd 1518 1528
BSNL 896 1108
IDEA 79 99
M/s Reliance 800 1185
M/s SSTL 6426 6432
Vodafone 64 263
S-Tel 7 7
Videocone 1 1
TTSL 5618 5693
M/s Uninor 33 85
(c) & (d) The matter pertaining to subscriber verification has
been discussed with Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on various occasions
and guidelines regarding subscriber verification have been issued to
Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) from time to time for verifying the
identity of their subscribers in consultation with MHA.
(e) & (f) Vide DoT letter dated 22.11.2006 all the TSPs were
directed to verify all of their existing subscribers by 31-03-2007.
Instructions regarding compulsorily verification of credential of a
person before enrolling him as their subscriber were also re-iterated.
Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (TERM) Cells, field units
of DoT located in each Licensing Service Area (generally analogous to
State) are carrying out periodic sample verification of Customer
Acquisition Form/ Customer Application Form (CAF)/ Subscriber Acquisition
Form (SAF) along with supporting documents on Photo, Identity,
Address (PIA) basis to check the compliance. Penalty has been
imposed non-compliant cases. To ensure the documentation as per
present guidelines all the Telecom Service Providers were directed
to re-verify their existing subscribers vide letter date 30.09.2009.
