Glo Mobile Given Two Weeks to Clamp Down on SIM Box Fraud:

Ghana based mobile network, Glo Mobile has been given two weeks to clamp down on the use of illegal SIM boxes on its network for international calls.

The regulator issued the warning after finding that the use of SIM Boxes to bypass the international termination rates payable to the landline network had surged on the Glo network.

Statistics from the NCA indicate that there has been a increase in fraudulent SIMs from around 2,500 in January, 2013, to nearly 30,000 in August, 2013.

"Our team of investigators uncovered that out of the number of SIM bypass activities exposed, Glo Mobile's share of the fraud accounted for more than 80 per cent since May, 2012," the regulator said.

However, the mobile network says it is as much a victim of the fraud as the landline network, as it has to pay termination fees to other networks for calls which appear to have originated on its network.

Commentators noted that as Glo is the smallest network, with around 6 percent market share, that its high level of SIM box fraud indicated some sort of failure within its own monitoring systems.