No More Poor Network As Nigerians Introduces New “Super SIM Card”

The difficulty of poor high quality service, use of a number of telephones and porting from one community to a different could quickly be historical past in Nigeria’s expertise house.

If the Tremendous Sim Card Innovation to be launched by a workforce of researchers from College of Know-how, Minna, turns into a actuality.

The analysis work which began three years in the past was commissioned and sponsored by the NCC to pave manner for indigenous and novel applied sciences that might disrupt the present applied sciences and likewise handle issues within the business.

The Vice Chancellor of Federal College of Know-how, FUT Minna, Prof. Abdullahi Bala on Monday led a workforce of researchers comprising college students and scientists from the college to current two expertise innovation initiatives funded by the Nigerian Communications Fee, NCC.

The NCC coughed out about N4.7 million for the 2 initiatives, Seamless A number of Operator enabled SIM playing cards and cellular communication enabled strolling stick.

They’re designed to deal with the difficulty of subscribers utilizing a number of telephones and SIM playing cards as a consequence of poor high quality of service. The mission is especially in line with the consideration for nationwide roaming that’s being promoted by the fee.

Presenting the novel units, the Lead Researcher and Head, Division of Mechatronics Engineering , FUT Minna, Prof. Abiodun Aibinu defined that the primary mission, the Seamless Information and Voice Connection Over A number of Operator enabled SIM Card permits a subscriber the chance of getting one SIM card for all networks or one cell phone with one SIM card for all networks.

Aibinu mentioned that the innovation is a significant disruption in the established order ante of the Nigerian telecom panorama as a result of the system with the SIM will get the sign of all out there networks in a specific location.

He mentioned: “We’re speaking about disrupting the ecosystem within the telecommunication business within the sense that with only one SIM card, you’ll be able to entry the out there networks with out porting or shopping for a number of SIMS.

“Folks carry quite a lot of telephones or SIMs lately on account of poor high quality service and the uncertainty of community energy of an space; so utilizing fundamental engineering and the expertise behind Cell phone, we utilized Synthetic Intelligence, AI system to allow the system take clever resolution on behalf of the person in switching from the community with poor high quality service to a different with higher high quality service.

“What this implies is that instantly the product hits the market, subscribers would actually develop into kings as they will take pleasure in high quality service even with out having a couple of cellphone.”

On the second innovation, growth of Cellular Communication enabled strolling stick, he additionally defined that the innovation is a cell phone embedded strolling stick designed to assist the person, particularly the aged and the blind navigate by harmful spots, and on the similar time make calls when mandatory.

Explaining why NCC threw cash on the improvements, Govt Vice Chairman of the NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta mentioned it was in line with the consideration for Nationwide Roaming Plan that the fee felt it will be worthy to offer such improvements a trialDanabba, who was represented by one of many fee’s Govt Commissioners, Engr. Ubale Maska, recommended the workforce for dwelling as much as its duties of using the N4.7million grant to innovate a disruptive expertise that might improve the present high quality of service within the nation.

He contended that for the reason that innovation is trying into the longer term it will be of immense profit to the telecom business as a result of the business could be very dynamic.