DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEB BASED SIM REGISTRATION SYSTEM

ABSTRACT

This project is actually explaining the importance of online sim card registration, which has contributed more effectively towards in reduction of phone crime in Nigeria. The Nigeria communication commission (NCC), has taken a drastic method in putting a stop of every criminal act made, in the use of mobile phones. The sim registration process, has not only help in finding out every illegal or criminal act committed by various individuals, but also has contributed to the nation (Nigeria), in knowing the volume or the number of persons using a sim mobile phones. This process has also help telecommunication operators or industries in finding out the specific crime made in the use of sim mobile phones. For example, knowing the exact location, address, name, place and even time of calls made by the individual will be traced out. The Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) went into the debate by asking the various communication operators to choose between the security of the country and their business. This actually came into the conclusion for the sim card registration to take effect.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

“SIM Card Registration System” is a system that is used by the user for the purpose of managing and saving different SIM Cardholders of different service providers. This project provides a very sincere way of keeping the total details of any Cardholders of any service providers and their details. Detailed .net programming with web application has been used to design this project. The aim or objective of the project is to handle all the data of cardholders like their address, phone no., pin code, SIM serial no., SIMcard no., E-mail address, etc. by which service provider can easily handle their customers.

1.0     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

In line with directives from the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) and as part of efforts to have a credible database and as through Sim card Subscribers in Nigeria, MTNN will be laughing the MTNN  Sim Card Registration. The MTNN Sim Card Registration process is amid at capturing detailed information of all MTNN Nigeria Subscribers. This became a necessity as a result of the increasing frequency with which mobile phones are being used in criminal activities in the country. This is expected to serve as the primary source of identity verification of all MTNN customers. The sim card registration will enable MTNN to link every sim card to the identity of the actual owner. Details to be captured during the sim card.

The registration process is:

Subscriber name

Address

Alternate phone number

Passport-sized photograph

Left and right thumbprint

Left and right index fingerprint

Personal unlocking key

in addition to the information above, the registration process will include the customer that wants to register an MTNN sim card appearing in a person to enable actual capturing of the photograph and biometric (fingerprint).  Registration points will be deployed nationwide levering on designated MTNN sim registration points nationwide e.g. MTNN walk-in centers, connect stores designated post offices, trade partners nationwide est.  Nigeria authorities are fighting against telecommunication crimes, then telecommunication industries like the MTNN, AIRTEL, GLOBACOM, ETISALAT, and other communication industries, are required to registered the details information of their customer’s.

1.2     STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

The SIM card registration process which is done nationwide on within the country has been so tedious, subscribers go to the registration points and line up in an unending line waiting for the time it will be his turn, some don’t get the opportunity of doing that same day and will have to return the following day to join the queue again. This has been an issue as some of this subscribes are businessmen that closed their shops because they want to re-validate their SIM due to the fact that some of the subscribers are disconnection already from the network.

1.3    OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The MTNN sim card registration process has been targeted at all new existing customers on the MTNN Network both prepaid and postpaid, mostly by making sure that unlawful act towards in the use of telephone will be monitored it also helps in the followings.

.registered the details of all new customers on the network in compliance with NCC requirements.

. Collect customer’s information for all MTN Nigeria subscribers.

. Help in tracking down every criminal call made by the subscribers (customer).

1.4    SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This project looks into the processes if registration SIM cards basically by web, as a means of validating user’s data to the SIM. Also, this research work is for the MTN Nigeria telecommunication network.

1.5   LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

Inaccessibility to some documents, which arose due to security, imposed on some of the organization documents by the management. It was not also possible to make an in-depth study of these documents, which would have helped in the development of the project work. Time was a major limitation to this write-up, there wasn’t enough time to study the details of the various field of the information department of the organization unavailability of a textbook needed for this write – up was not found in the institution library.

This study will not look in detail into other sections of the sim registration except the only part explained MTNN sim registration it does not explain on the other section of telecom operators but rather explained in the other section aforementioned.

1.6     SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The study gave birth to a new strategic method of dealing with the registration. This work is significant the MTN communication Telecommunication as it will aid easy SIM registration and revalidation. Also, this research work will serve as reference material to fellow researchers, academic students, and others as a reference study guide.

1.7  DEFINITION OF TERM

SIM: subscriber identity module (SIM) card is a smart card inserted into a cell phone that holds a card inserted with personal information relating to the subscribers’ personal identity number or stored phone numbers.

SUBSCRIBER: – Is a customer or a person, company who purchases goods and services from another person organization.

DATABASE: Database, is any collection of data organized for storage in computer memory and designed for easy access by authorized users. The data may be in the form of text, numbers, or encoded graphics

NCC:  Nigeria communication commission, they brought out by helping to conduct and maintain sanctity on the telecom operators in Nigeria.

PIN NUMBER: Is a personal identity number is basically provided for the subscriber making use of the subscriber’s identity module (SIM), for privately used for the subscriber.

PUK NUMBER: It is a personal unblocking key every telecom operator provides this PUK for the subscriber’s in the industry.

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