The update was contained in a statement the company’s Corporate Communication Office issued yesterday.
Ranked second largest GSM operator in Nigeria, Globacom currently has 52,573,907 subscribers in Nigeria alone, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
Globacom, total telecommunications solutions provider, is currently operating in Republic of Benin, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire with its own 9,800-kilometre submarine infrastructure that cut across Africa West Coast apart from Nigeria.
In its statement yesterday, the company said subscribers could easily link their SIMs with their NIN on their phones via a short code without visiting Gloworld outlets.
It said: “All our esteemed customers can now link their National Identification Number (NIN) to their mobile numbers by simply sending ‘UPDATENIN NIN FirstName and LastName’ to 109. For example, send ‘UPDATENIN 12345678903 Chidera Abdul-Ola’ to 109.”