Sim card re registration deadline extended

SIM card re-enrollment cutoff time stretched out to September 30 - Ursula Owusu-Ekuful Serve for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful. The SIM card re-enrollment practice has been stretched out to September 30, 2022. Many individuals have been battling to re-register their SIM cards as expected by the Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation. The Exercise was booked to end on Sunday, July 31, 2022. Nonetheless, talking at a press instructions on Sunday, the Communications and Digitalisation Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, said the expansion followed conferences with industry partners. "Upon discussion with the business and considering the difficulties counted above, I have hesitantly chosen to give a restrictive expansion. The program will be stretched out to 30th September to end on the commemoration of its initiation." "That will give us one entire year of SIM enlistment. It will be inspected toward the finish of this current month and any SIM that has not been completely enrolled toward the finish of August will be banned from getting specific administrations including voice and information administrations," she said. The Minister noticed that in spite of the difficulties with the Ghana Card - long lines among others - numerous Ghanaians neglected to enlist their SIMs after the cutoff time was expanded. Subsequently, this expansion of the cutoff time is the last one. "The measurements show that there was a 90% drop in SIM reregistration, when the primary cutoff time was reached out on 21st March. Until seven days prior there were no lines, individuals began going to enlist when they understood that the cutoff time was approaching subsequent to falling asleep." "The portable organization administrators, NCA, and the NIA have all drawn in extra staff, acquired the important planned operations and are bringing about massive costs to direct this exercise effectively, any augmentation of the cycle expands their expense," she added. This comes after numerous Ghanaians blockaded media transmission outlets the nation over in a frantic endeavor to enroll their SIM cards in front of the second cutoff time on Sunday, July 31. Around 7.9m Ghanaians were supposed to lose SIM cards by the cutoff time. As per information contained in the 2021 Population and Housing Census, there are 19.9 million Ghanaians who are 15 years and more established. Out of this, main 15.7 million of them have had the option to acquire their Ghana Card per the data given by the Finance Minister during the introduction of the 2022 mid-year spending plan audit. Of the 19.9 million, only 12 million, as indicated by the Minister of Communications and Digitisation, have had the option to completely enlist their SIM cards. Individuals approached the public authority and the Communications Ministry to expand the cutoff time of the SIM card re-enrollment work out. In the mean time, the Communications Minister has reported that a self sim enlistment application will be sent off the following week to assist with peopling register in the solace of their homes.