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Chimwemwe
Chimwemwe
8 years ago

Regulation is very necessary. Personally I think we need such a system as the said CIRMS in place. However I have some caveats. The premise on which TNM obtained the injunction is one such caveat. It is pertinent and it should really have been we, the ordinary citizenry, who should have been asking such questions. 1) Do we have a framework under which the CIRMS would be operated? In the absence of such I am afraid we stand to have our rights violated and we would have a hard time seeking redress when that happens. Going to court would be… Read more »

mnyamata wa nzeru
mnyamata wa nzeru
8 years ago

This is what we need as a nation. Now we need to move towards mandatory sim card registraion and we need to have a clear stand-point on VOIP.

Yona
Yona
8 years ago

The problem is that Malawian institutions are not good at public awareness. After four years we have never seen the said machine…not on TV or even a photo. By now we needed to know what is it used for. What do we gain that we have the said machine? How does it work? For how long will it operate? Etc…we need to educate the general public on things like these. Again much as I can appreciate we do not have national IDs…we needed to start registering phone numbers. This practice of buying phone cards from street insert in a phone… Read more »

mbimbi
mbimbi
8 years ago

I like our leaders interest in drawing parallels from the other countries. But unfortunately they only pick on things that face resistance. Why don’t you also copy better pay from Zambia, South Africa and other countries which take very good care of workers. We have not yet initiated something for others to copy and apply.

But…

Peter
Peter
8 years ago

This is good lets have sanity in this country of goold

ALOSWEA
8 years ago

Rights to privacy broken

levelheaded
8 years ago

The machine is of great purpose to both the mobile phone operators and subscribers. Those that have been resisting ushering it raise suspicions on how they conduct there business. It is used in most countries where IT has taken shape.Its in Malawi we have given it the name of being a spy machine as if its intended to spy. It levels the playing field between operators and subscribers by helping mediators (macra) in tracing any fishy business. A big welcome to the warmheart of Africa.

Achimidzimidzi
Achimidzimidzi
8 years ago

How old is the machine? What’s the payback period? azimisili muli nawo?
Do not create network interruptions and blackouts, ife business yathu ndi ya phone.

We do not want to see rates being raised because of this machine.

Titus scot
Titus scot
8 years ago

Machine mpaka kuchita dzimbiri komanso the programme requires upgrading I suppose, ndalama zinanso zimenezi. Adzalipire a Tnm et al!

Mapiri
Mapiri
8 years ago

If journalists don’t know what CIRMS is then it is very unfortunate.

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