Some mobile network users in the nation, particularly those in Kumasi, Accra, and Takoradi who have successfully re-registered their SIM cards claim that the sanctions imposed by the National Communications Authority (NCA) on owners of unregistered SIM cards are being applied to them.
Such impacted individuals gathered in large numbers at various mobile network operator locations to demand answers.
Following a mandate from the NCA to force individuals who have Ghana cards but have yet not registered their SIM cards to do so, Mobile Network Operators started enforcing various punitive steps on unregistered SIM cards.
However, some claim that the punishments, which include preventing unregistered SIM cards from making calls for a while and blocking the SIM cards for a while, are having a positive effect.
SIM card owners in Ghana who have not re-registered their cards started facing punitive actions on Monday, September 5, 2022, ahead of the September 30 deadline.
The Member of Parliament for the Bunkpurugu Constituency, Abed-Nego Azumah Bandim earlier in the week called for a withdrawal of the National Communication Authority’s punitive measures against persons yet to re-register their SIM cards.
Mr. Bandim said the punitive measures are unreasonable given the several challenges that have characterized the Ghana card and SIM card re-registration processes.
