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Year-long Thin SIM ‘live test’ will go on, industry regulators tell MPs

Nairobi; Kenya: Central Bank Governor Njuguna Ndung’u and senior officials of the Communications Authority (CA) yesterday told MPs that the rollout of Thin SIM on a trial basis for the next one year would not be stopped.

They said the rollout would proceed because it was the only way to check the vulnerabilities in the technology and seal loopholes before Equity Bank is granted a freehand to move into the mobile money market.

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