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Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi. The bank wanted to launch its mobile services using Thin Sim technology. [Photo: File]
A report adopted by a committee of the National Assembly has faulted the deployment of Thin SIM card technology in Kenya and asked that the process cease immediately.
The Parliamentary Committee on Information and Technology wants the process suspended until an independent technical evaluation and functional test is done and the Thin SIM card security audit sanctioned by the Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK) is accomplished.
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