Uganda’s ongoing SIM card registration campaign was launched in 2018. It was initially based on the national identification numbers (NIN) of telecom subscribers. The government subsequently added biometric measures. Subscribers to Ugandan telecommunications services have until Sunday, November 12 to register their SIM cards or risk seeing them deactivated. The ultimatum was given by the Uganda Communications...
The attention of the National Communications Authority (NCA) has been drawn to the leasing/renting of Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) by some individuals and entities to foreigners and nationals in Ghana. The NCA wishes to state categorically that such individuals and entities and their mode of operations have not been sanctioned by the Authority. Their business...
In Namibia, the SIM card registration campaign was launched on January 1, 2023 and is supposed to last 12 months. It was preceded by a national consumer awareness campaign which lasted six months. The campaign to register SIM cards for Namibian mobile phone subscribers is facing some “ major challenges ” which are slowing down the process with...
Following the National Communications Authority’s (NCA’s) order to block SIM cards not registered with the Ghana Card, MTN Ghana disconnected 4.9 million SIMs in the last six months. Ghana’s major telecoms company today announced 2023 interim results, informing shareholders of a reduction in subscriber numbers as a result of the SIM-blocking order. MTN stated: “As...
Hundreds of subscribers of telecommunication companies yesterday thronged the offices and service centres of the companies to register their SIMs to avoid deactivation. The subscribers were aiming to register their SIMs before the deadline of the SIM registration exercise which commenced in October 2021. Per the National Communication Authority (NCA), as at the end of...
The Ghanaian government launched the telecom subscriber identification campaign in October 2021. More than a year later, millions of people still have not linked their SIM cards to their identity cards despite the extension of time several times. The Ghana National Communications Authority (NCA) plans to disconnect some 11.1 million active SIM cards on May...
Mozambique’s National Communications Institute (Instituto Nacional de Comunicacoes de Mocambique, INCM) has announced a revamp of the process to register and activate mobile SIM cards. New legislation has been approved by the government and will be implemented in six months’ time. The regulator says that an update to the process was necessary because the current system is being...
The campaign to register SIM cards for Ghanaian telecom subscribers was supposed to end on March 31, 2022. The government had to postpone the deadline several times until November 30. Ghanaian telecommunications subscribers have until Friday March 10 to finalize the registration of their SIM cards or risk being disconnected from the network, the National...
The last campaign to identify Tanzanian telecom subscribers was due to end on January 31. However, the government has postponed the deadline until February 13 to allow all citizens using telecom services to comply. The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has started disconnecting the 970,046 mobile phone lines that had not yet been identified. This was announced...
The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has extended the deadline for mobile users to verify active SIM cards using their personal National Identification Number (NIN). Local newspaper The Citizen reports that the original deadline of 31 January has now been postponed to 13 February. The regulator said that unverified active SIM cards would be barred from receiving or providing...
