extensively.
In such a scenario almost half of the SIMs will remain not verified by the end of February 27 for which extension in deadlines is necessary. On the other hand, big queues are seen at the retailers, franchises and customers centres of all the cellular operators for biometric verification. The number of users is still waiting for fall in crowd so that they can re-verify their SIMs in a hassle-free atmosphere.
Similarly, the cellular operators have also been arranging special biometric SIMs verification counters at various public and community places, such as press clubs, high courts, railway stations, markets and other place to maximise the re-verification by the deadline of February 27. However, despite all out efforts only 31.025 million users are re-verified so far.
The government officials said in the light of the existing efforts, the government is considering extending the deadline of re-verification procedure. However, he said under the extension of deadlines all unverified SIMs will be deactivated once and will be activated again when the users approached their cellular operators concerned for verification.
Meanwhile, the cellular operators are seeking government support not to deactivate those SIMs which were not re-verified by February 26 deadline. They are requesting the government to allow re-verification as its ongoing process. They believed that if those non-biometric SIMs deactivated after February 26, then all the industry will suffer billion of rupees loss during the deactivation to reactivation time lag of these non-biometric verified SIMs.
Other than this, it will also put an extra pressure on all the five cellular operators as well as Nadra system as everyone who is left behind in re-verification process will rush to their respective services providing telecom company for reactivation after re-verification.
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