The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Council -ZICTA says unsolicitated voice and text messages by some political parties, are coming from international circuits and not from the three mobile phone operators.
ZICTA Public Relations Manager Ngabo Nankonde says the voice call recording is machine generated and is coming from an international circuit.
Ms Nankonde has also told ZNBC News that text messages are originating from a masked number which is not allocated or being used by any of the three mobile operators.
She says none of the mobile phone providers in the country has given access to their subscriber call records to any of the political parties.
ZICTA has recently received complaints from members of the public that they are receiving unsolicited calls and text messages from some political parties.
ZNBC
MMD Zwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! We know this is the work of the so called Image Builders alas!! Go PF, GO Sata 20th Sept
Indeed this is very annoying, especially those coming from a party of thugs and satanists PF.
VIVA RB VIVA RB nafuti nafuti 2011
Ba ZICTA naimwe dont parade your idiocy so cheaply. Just tell us the truth not this nonsense!!! No wonder yuo could not trace the origin of the ftj mwamba n matani mail. Dullllllllllluuuuuuu.
Those fools should stop sending the annoying sms
Must be from a database from ZAMTEL. This database could be hosted in Morocco since it has replaced Libya as the centre for abusing Zambia by RB and his crooks.
ZICTA knows where these messages are coming from and they can be blocked. Any technical matter can be solved with the right people in jobs. Sadly, ZICTA is full of people already bribed by service providers hence the poor quality of our mobile services.
may the almighty save us from this evil MMD who to take zambia lyk its thr personal to holder.they can do any thng to zambians at any tym with no regard to the law..God is all us.ZICTA shows that we av no protection protection wat so ever..
This is very unfortunate!! I cannot just imagine how the Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel can abuse customers’ data at T-Mobile just to win an election!!!!!!!!!
Nankonde dont behave like Dora who doesnt wear underpants.
Why is MMD using only AIRTEL and not MTN?
Stupid *****, you have allowed invaders to enter our privacy at the expence of one person??just because its international?
Nonsense, how can in international provider have access to Zambian numbers without them being given by local providers. Bullshit
rubbish
Is Zambia safe then?Â
Not long ago we read that RB has come up with a team of people at state house that will collect customer numbers from telephone companies in the country, so that they send recorded RB voice mail atleast 48 hours before voting, soliciting votes from people who’s cell numbers will be collected. Now is this not phone hijacking or identity thefty? Ba ZICTA dont fool people you know who are sending those messages.
You dont even need to know the actual numbers to send such texts, the computer sends them automatically. All you need is the message you are sending then your programme configuration. Sit back and relax, the computer searches and randomly sends texts, as many as you like depending on how much money you have.
ICT is clever, well the serpent calls it ITT
wow nice i cant wait to have that sms. at least it shows we are technologically there, some of you *****s dont know just like tracing an ip which is behind a proxy or proxies it is quite difficult to pin point as to numbers zambia has known prefixes internationally, one doesnt need airtel or mtn to give them the numbers
As a professional these are pure Lies……lies …..lies
The key word is HACKING  and Zambians should be asking for who has hacked into system. ZICTA, should have talented people who can counter and  secure the system, unless the authority is under a party cadre who has orders not to stop the messages.
strange, so lets figure out this, suddenly a genius has evolved such technology to soley target Zambian mobile phone users at this critical time and by laws of probability, he/she succeeds to put a messege across and walah, Ngabo Nankonde says such machine recorded sms are originating from the international circuit. Okay a novice will believe this tosh and swallow it as gospel truth. The TRUTH is any messege coming as an encrypted data set can be traced back to the origin and by this reversal process, hackers have been identified even when their sources showed masking. The gist is at what level are ZICTA officials working? end user with limited access to the framework? or they have access to administrator level such that all forms of communication trafficking Zambia are scanned and known?
#16, typical ignorant rantings
Mnay times I and many other people have received such sms from some number which claims that my phone has won 500,000 Birtish pounds and asking me to phone a given number to claim my “prize”.
As for the political campaign sms, one has to take them with a pinch of salt given that some parties have gone to unprecedented lengths this year to sow deeds of doubt in the electoral process. As I have said before, we should expect more and worse during these dying minutes, especially when the ballots arrive in the country.
Baba i dont think anyone of us has ever requested for sms’s that come from Airtell or Mtn but its there marketing strategy same with MMD they are in the morden world and i have recieved it thats why apa ni landslide baiche umuntu ni RB
Clearly OP, ZICTA, ZAMTEL and its new operations base in Morocco are the key to the answer, ofcourse with RB at the centre. The man is big time crook! Sad that so many Zambians have been blinded by money instead of the nation becoming a winner. RB is the virus that the nation least needs. He is a crook, and has teamed up with international crooks to ensure that he remains in office no matter what it takes in order to cover up for his thefts and continuation of plunder and looting.
ZICTA board must be fired and replaced by people who are politically neutral but technically savvy in order to protect Zambia. The current board is rotten and only serves narrow interests of RB and his goons.
In my view, this is better than door-to-door campaign coz you are not engeged into discussion and you have an option to delete the message if you don’t like it. Instead of sitting there complaining, find your own way of marketing your party. These complaints are uncalled for.
Guys, let us talk to whoever we can, but please for that one day let the entire Country spend there night at the polling station guiding our votes up and until the last vote has been counted and results announced by the ECZ in Lusaka (Confirmed by oursleves in the field as true). Please spare us your sleep and let’s all spend our nights at the polling stations. If you suspect there will be rigging at any one polling station, please let us go there early enough so we seal out everything.