SIM Card Registration Deadline In Ghana 2022: New Date. Techgh24 has gathered that the July 31, 2022 deadline for SIM registration will be extended but with some punitive conditions for unregistered SIM cards.
The Minister of Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful will be issuing a statement today to announce the extension and the conditions attached, which were proposed by the telcos themselves at a meeting between the various stakeholders at the Ministry.
Genuine Reasons
There are several genuine reasons that necessitate an extension and compromise.
For instance, the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) players like Surfline, Broadband Home, Busy Ghana, and Telesol were prevented from starting SIM registration on October 1, 2021, with the telcos, so they need more time to complete theirs.
When the exercise started in October last year, the BWAs were asked by National Communications Authority (NCA) to wait, as the focus was on the telcos that had large numbers.
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But they later learnt that the directive had to do mainly with technical issues and integration unto National Identification Authority’s platforms among other things. As a result, they only started work on integration sometime at beginning of the second quarter of this year and that also had several challenges with the central party.
Everything was cleared for them to commence registration on July 21, 2022 (nine days ago), but they had to do their own test runs to ensure the system works, so they started actual registration just a few days ago.
So the BWAs, which have a total of less than 50,000 customers, have at least one month extra to register their customers.
