Abstract:
Cellular Mobile services are globally considered as a driver and project economic growth. it is
the responsibility of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the Government of Pakistan to
share the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for issuance of SIMs, which stands as regulatory
requirements and all the mobile operators are by law enforced to show compliance to these
requirements, which otherwise may result in dire consequences such as heavy fines and in worst
case cancelling of license. These requirements have been changing ever since. Now, the
Government of Pakistan has proposed biometric based system for the verification of subscriber
identity, yet again inducing huge capital and operational expense at end of cellular mobile
companies for this verification system.
In these critical situations where a new regulatory requirement is raised every day to deal with
ever changing scenarios of PTA’s SOP, assessing whether a company’s business practices
conform to laws and regulations and follow standards and comply is a complex and costly task,
therefore it is important to have a system which can deal with these rapid compliance changes.
There is almost always a huge gap between the capability of system to perform and the business
demands from same system.
