Ursula Owusu-Ekuful
The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has said the SIM card re-registration exercise has been extended to 30 September 2022.
Addressing the media in Accra on Sunday(31 July) Owusu-Ekuful said “The programme will be extended to 30 September to end on the anniversary of its commencement, that will give us one full year of SIM registration.”
“It will be reviewed at the end of this Month, and any SIM that has not fully been registered by the end of August will barred from receiving certain services including voice and data services.”
She added “It will also be more expensive to use unregistered SIM, the full range of punitive measures will be announced at another press briefing in September, kindly dont blame your service provider when you suffer that fate.”
Owusu-Ekuful said an an app will also be made available where people can sit at the comfort of their homes and register their SIM cards.
Listen to Ursula Owusu-Ekuful in the attached audio below:
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