Unregistered SIM cards to be blocked by October 31 – Ursula Owusu
Do you know that unregistered SIM cards will be blocked by October 31, 2022? Information reaching Ghana Education News is that over 18 million SIM cards have been re-registered and the Minister of Communications and Digitalization led by Hon. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful plan to suspend all SIM cards that have not been registered.
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When this is affected on 31st October, persons who have failed to fully register their SIM card will not be able to access both data and voice services from their network service providers.
According to further details made public by the sector minister, those who have not begun the process at all will have their unregistered SIM cards ‘progressively’ blocked as well.
The Ministry has therefore extended the 30th September deadline to October 31st.
“All SIM Cards that have been linked to Ghana Cards (i.e. completed Stage 1 registration), but have not completed their Stage 2 registration will be blocked from the end of October.
“This is not an extension of the deadline but a temporary moratorium to encourage these individuals to complete the process. If they have any peculiar challenges, they should contact the NCA.
“These good people have the Ghana card, have started the process and will be encouraged to complete it with this gentle reminder. All other unregistered SIMs will also be blocked progressively,” sections of the statement read.
The minister has also reminded Ghanaians not to register more than 10 SIMs with their Ghana card. According to her those who have exceeded the threshold will have excess numbers delinked from their Ghana Card the excess numbers.
On data-only SIMs, the minister added that they have till the end of November 30 to complete the reregistration exercise.
“All data-only SIMs including those issued by Surfline, Busy Internet, Telesol, and any institution such as ECG, have up to the end of November to complete registration.
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“Some people have registered more than ten (10) SIM Cards for personal use and the database has identified it and will clean it up. They should, as a matter of urgency, delink the unwanted SIM Cards immediately because any excess SIM Cards over the individual limit of 10 SIMs per person will be removed from the database and blocked.
“This will also address issues of pre-registered SIMS. Let me remind all SIM card vendors that it is an offence to pre-register and sell SIM cards. The NCA has been directed to conduct mystery shopping and enforce the law against those miscreants. If found guilty, they could be imprisoned for up to 5 years,” the statement continued.
According to data put out by the minister, a total of 18,930,664 SIM Cards have been fully registered while 28,959,006 SIM Cards have been linked to Ghana Cards – representing 67.28% of the 42,749,662 total SIM cards issued nationally.
This is between 1st October 2021 and 4th October 2022.
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