Further there are cases where residents due to being bed ridden, physically challenged and are not able to visit service points of telecom service providers. In case of agent—assisted biometric authentication for SIM re—verification or issuance, telcos have been asked to ensure that full e—KYC details of subscribers are not made visible to the agent. Nor should data be stored on the agent’s device, the source added.In the current dispensation, e—KYC data of the subscriber including photograph is visible to the agent of the telecom operator. Further, the government has asked mobile operators to re—verify existing prepaid and postpaid customers, with the help of the 12—digit unique identity number. The re—verification exercise is scheduled to be completed by early 2018.The Indian telecom market with subscriber base of over a billion is second—largest in the world after China

Source: Economic Times October 25, 2017 09:00 UTC