Currently, several Indian telecom network operators including Idea Cellular, Vodafone and Airtel have opened e-KYC services. These new e-KYC services should enable carriers to reduce costs and time spent in the various checks.

Pakistan’s home department is investing Rs495 million (US$7.7 million) in developing an Automated Fingerprints Information System (AFIS) for the Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) by June 2018, according to a report by Tribune.

The government is using biometrics to ensure that the girls attending classes are, in fact, the same girls receiving the payments at the end of the month, as well as to free up teachers from manually keeping attendance records.

The government-owned India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) is planning to procure approximately 160,000 smartphones and 270,000 biometric scanners to bring banking services to household doorsteps along with the mail, The Hindu Business Line reports. The bank’s motto translates roughly as “Your bank, your doorstep.”

Biometric registration in the south was adopted for national security reasons but elsewhere in Thailand it is aimed at mobile banking security, regulatory official Takorn Tantasith The new rules require users to either have their fingerprints verified or their faces scanned. Officials say insurgents in the largely ethnic Malay Muslim provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat have used pre-paid SIM cards to trigger bombs.

A simple and convenient Aadhaar based digital verification process will facilitate instant activation of Airtel mobile connections The solution is LIVE in Airtel stores in Delhi NCR and the company plans to deploy it across the country over the next few days in all company operated stores

Announcing the plans to media, Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore explained that the idea is to curb fraud. One such criminal incident recently led to the arrest of 22 individuals, including Safaricom staffers.

On June 14, the car home announced that it had reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation with JAC. According to the content of the strategic cooperation, both parties will integrate superior resources and focus on in-depth cooperation in brand promotion, marketing innovation, and big data applications to create opportunities for development.

The boss of Africa's biggest telecom company MTN is stepping down just weeks after Nigeria fined the company about $5 billion, which is about half its annual revenue.