The much-awaited SIM Card registration will commence from October 1 to December 31, 2021.
All existing mobile network subscribers are supposed to present their Ghana-Cards to enable them to register while foreigners will provide their passports and travel documents for registration.
Business entities are also to provide their business registration documents from the Registrar General's Department for registration.
Ghanaian network subscribers are eligible to register up to 10 sim cards across all mobile networks while foreigners can register three.
Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Minister of Communication and Digitalisation, who announced this at the Minister's briefing in Accra on Sunday, said those who failed to register their existing sim cards would have them blocked.
She said the registration would curb SIM Boxing and other criminal activities being perpetrated by fraudsters using fake sim cards.
The exercise is in accordance with the Subscriber Identity Module Registration Regulations, 2011, LI 2006.
The sim card registration should have been held in March, last year, but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed the process.
The registration would be undertaken by agents of the mobile network operators at designated registration centres and Ghana Post Offices.
It is expected that the exercise would build better demographic customer databases for mobile networks to help them develop better products and services.
Additionally, the National Communication Authority would have accurate data to regulate the telecommunication industry and improve e-government services for economic growth.
Meanwhile, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful has announced that the Central Equipment Identity Registry would soon be established to address the smuggling and trade in counterfeit, stolen and sub-standard mobile devices.
Ghana would also be connected to the global database to access the IMEI of approved and blacklisted devices to help the authentication of mobile devices, she said.
Source: GNA
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This government is aways coming up with stu.pi.d and backward policies. Burning USD120,000 excavators which could have been seized and allocated to local start-up road contractors. I mean sometimes I wonder if there is an “appointment curse” which causes government appointees to suddenly have depreciating IQs the second they get appointment. Unbelievable, so if one does not have Ghana Card and has re-registered over 5x already using a same number for close to 20 years, their phone number will be blocked? NPP what a disappoint.ment. #***barred word***.i.ty indeed knows no limit. I mean look at this one teacher one laptop initiative. If a teacher is mandated to pay for 12 months shouldn't they have a say in the brand and specification of laptop? Which of the government appointees will go to a tech and buy TM1 laptop? I mean NPP c'mon, you can do better. Apple, Dell, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony and .....TM1. Well we look forward to 2024 so you can guide you to keep the loot and the equally st.u.p.i.d policies.
Waa look? How you expect citizens to use 3 months to register their SIM cards looking at the number of .obile phone users in the country. Why are we always behaving like there is no brain in our head. And a citizen can register 10 SIM cards and foreigners 3 SIM cards. Are we encouraging fraud or trying to protect fraud? 10 cards for what? Hmmmm