NCA directs telcos to start blocking calls and data service of unregistered SIM cards today
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has announced in a statement that it will from today 5th September, 2022 start rolling out some punitive actions against mobile users who have not registered their SIM cards with the Ghana Card.
The statement explained that outgoing calls and data services for a sequential batch of numbers will be blocked for two(2) days weekly on a rotational basis.
Mobile Network Operators, (MNO’s) “shall divide the unregistered SIMs into five batches for the purpose of implementing this punitive measure. These measures shall exclude blocking of SMS to give defaulting subscribers the opportunity to initiate registration if they so wish. Subscribers who fully register their SIM Cards within the period they have been blocked will only be unblocked by the MNOs after the 48 hours to avoid the MNOs tampering with their systems intermittently,” part of the statement read.
“MNOs shall put disconnected SIM Cards in a holding category and current subscribers of these SIM Cards shall be given six (6) months to register their SIM cards, failing which these numbers will be churned by the MNOs,” the statement further added.
By: Agaatorne Douglas Asaah | myactiveonline.com
