MYSORE: Concerned over the police action against retail dealers of cellphone operators, members of the Mysore Telecom Dealers Association on Tuesday took out a bike rally urging the deputy commissioner to intervene and settle the issue.
The city police, who recently unearthed a fake documentation scam to obtain several SIM cards on the same address, are cracking down on dealers in connection with misuse of records. So far, over a dozen dealers were arrested and sent to judicial custody. "This has worried us," said Association president Nirmalchand.
"We have been doing business on behalf of different mobile phone service providers for years. But the scam came to light now, thanks to city police. But our concern is not to book innocent persons."
The protestors said the document submitted by customers reaches the company after passing through various levels and the dealers play insignificant role. But the company after activating SIM cards must verify the address given by the dealers/customers by telephoning that number. If the user is found different or address contradicts with each other, the service provider must ask the user to re-submit application within a specified time and de-activate the number, according to rule book.
Over 200 dealers participated in the rally and the association members staged a sit-in in front of the deputy commissioner's office before submitting a memorandum to additional district magistrate Betsurmath. The rally commenced from the north gate of Mysore Palace and culminated at DC office.
Our comments: There is a general tendency among operators, cell distributors to distribute free sim cards to show the public that there market share is increasing day by day. In Jammu Kashmir, BSNL is able to give recores for 90% of the subscribers whereas other operators are able to present only 40% only. So the inflated figures of subscribers will be down once 100% check is made .
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