LAGOS: Saturday, March 3, 2012, marked the end of the deadline for the registration of SIM cards in the Ghana. However, due to some challenges with the validation of the registration of some subscribers, the sector Minister, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, asked the NCA to meet with the operators to ensure that people were not unduly deactivated, which led to a one-month grace given to subscribers. The Deputy Director of Communications and Consumer Services at the NCA(National Communications Authority), Mr Mawuko Zormelo has said that the move is to enable those with faulty Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards registration to rectify those issues before the deadline. He advised, “Such persons are to rectify whatever anomalies thereof, or they will have their SIMs deactivated just as those who have not registered at all.” He also asked the mobile telecom operators to desist from keeping the lines of those subscribers who have not registered at all on their networks or face sanctions as prescribed by the law. Any inaction on the part of an operator will attract 2,000 penalty units and that will be interpreted by the courts. He further disclosed that the operators were also expected to provide the names and numbers of all the lines they have been able to deactivate to the NCA. Mr Zormelo said the NCA had put in place systems that would be able to detect whether unregistered SIMs have been deactivated or not and warned of the negative consequences if they act otherwise. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/kZXcH Tags: Ghana, Registration, SIM card Section: Africa, Business, Tech, West Africa
