Outgoing Calls, Data Services Block For 48 Hours A Week For Unregistered SIMs

A press release by the National Communication Authority (NCA) last Sunday stated that

“A set of punitive measures designed to culminate the year-long nationwide SIM registration exercise will kick in from Monday, September 5, 2022.

“From Monday, September 5, 2022, subscribers who have not started their registration will have all outgoing calls re-routed to an interactive voice recording (IVR) for a SIM registration sensitisation message to be played before all calls are connected"

“Subscribers with uncompleted registration; that is, those who linked their Ghana cards to their SIM cards via *404# but have not proceeded to have their biodata captured, will also face similar disruption in service from Wednesday, September 7, 2022.”

It also stated that restrictions for data services for uncompleted SIM card registrants will start on September 12.

The press release also stated that outgoing calls and data services for unregistered sims would be blocked for 48 hours once in every week once the punitive measures start in September 2022.

Additionally, the NCA said subscribers who neither started stage one nor completed stage two of the SIM registration process would be allowed to reconnect their SIMs after duly completing the two stages of the registration process,

“After September 30, 2022, these SIMs as described above will not have access to any service, as their SIMs will be deactivated.

Subscribers will have a period of six months to register to redeem their SIMs, failing which their numbers will be churned - that is, re-assigned to the pool to be sold to potential new subscribers.

“The NCA encourages subscribers to register their SIMs to avoid the associated inconvenience and potential disruption in service after September 30,” the release added.

Data from the NCA reveals that so far only 17 million SIM cards have successfully gone through the complete registration since the exercise began in September 2021.

This is out of the about 42 million subscribers currently in the system.

Source: Ghanatrendingnews.com