Over 8 million unregistered SIM Cards have been blocked
following the rollout of punitive measures by the Ministry of Communication and
Digitalisation and the National Communications Authority, sector minister
Ursula Owusu-Ekulful has revealed.
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Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the 14th ITU
Kaleidoscope event, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful said those who are yet to re-register
their SIM cards must do so to help in weeding out criminals who take advantage
of the internet’s anonymity to defraud others.
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“Those who have linked their SIM cards to their Ghana card
in the first phase of the registration exercise, but have not gone on to
conclude the registration exercise by doing the biometric capture phase, are
those whose SIMs have been blocked.
“It is important that we do this because without the
security of our devices we are all at risk. There are fraudsters and criminals
out there who are using the anonymity of the internet and social media to
defraud others, and we need to ensure that no one can hide behind this
anonymity.”
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Several people on Monday thronged various registration
centres of their telecommunication networks to have their SIMs re-registered
after they were blocked.
Police officers had to be deployed to some SIM registration
centres in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi to avert possible chaos, after
hundreds of customers whose SIM cards have been blocked thronged the various
centres.
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The whole re-registration process began back in October 2021
when the Ghanaian government introduced a new law that required mobile
customers to link their SIM cards with their national identity card – known
locally as the “Ghana Card” – or risk being disconnected.
The NCA’s deadline said that subscribers who had only
completed stage one of the registration process (linkage to Ghana Card) but not
stage two (biometric capture) needed to be blocked by November 30, 2022.
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At the end of November, MTN Ghana had 22.1 million
subscribers that had completed stage one, of which 16.4 million had also
completed stage two of the subscriber registration process, leaving 5.7 million
that had not completed the process.
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