GOVERNMENT EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR SIM CARD REGISTRATION
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has indicated the extension of the Deadline for SIM card registration to 31st July 2022 to allow people who are yet to be registered to do so as such. This comes on the back of the data which was available to the ministry as of 17th March 2022, indicating that 14,091,542 SIM Cards have been linked to the Ghana Card.
Telecommunication networks began the SIM card registration on 1st October 2021 and are expected to end on 31st March 2022. But with the number of people registered, and due to other factors which include the fact that over 7.5 million citizens and residents are yet to obtain Ghana Cards to enable them to register, the government has seen it imperative to extend it as such.
The ministry also added that more time will also be required to update the SIM Registration App for the registration of diplomats, while a self-service SIM Registration App is also being developed to facilitate registration of SIM cards for Ghanaians residents abroad. This will be operational by April.
This was made known through the release from the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation on Tuesday 22 March 2022 and signed by the sector Minister, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful (MP).
Many Ghanaians have expressed their relief and appreciation for the decision taken by the Ministry. They assert that this will lessen the pressure on them and offer them time to do so as such.
