Energy And ICT Sector To Investigate Thin Sim Technology.
The Energy and ICT Sector Parliamentary Committee have asked the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) not to allow Equity bank to operate thin sim till it completes investigations on the security of customers using the technology.
Speaking at the Parliament media centre the chair committee Jamleck Kamau said that the committee is to deliberate on the issue of thin sim technology that has been licensed and approved.
“We came up with a sub-committee to look into issues that apparently have not been solved in terms of security of customers who will be using the banking money transfer,” said Jamleck.
Kamau also pointed out that since CAK has its approval the only thing that the committee can do is to hire an independent expert to investigate the matter.
“We are warning CAK not to allow Equity bank to operate the thin sim and if it does so before investigations are done it will face the law,” said Kamau.
Rarieda MP Nicholas Gumbo, who is a representative in the committee, said that in their last meeting the agreement was to guarantee the safety of thin sim particularly on money transfer via phone and messages received.
“Whenever you have a dominant player, more often than not, they have no problem setting rules and as we recognize the need to playing equality within the sector , we believe that any kind of competition must not compromise safety and integrity any existing systems’” said Nicholas.
“If it is true that the introduction of thin sim has the potential to manipulate data, how then do those who will be affected by infringement of their privacy be compensated,” said Nicholas.
Rarieda MP added that the committee found it unanimous in the deployment of thin sim as it is risky for CAK to have gone ahead in issuing a license to Equity bank.
By Albert Bwana
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