According to plans put in place by the Ministry of Communications and Digitalization, all SIM cards that haven’t been registered will be deactivated by November 30, 2022.
In a statement released on November 11, the Ministry issued a warning: “All SIM cards will be prevented from accessing data services on November 20, 2022, and entirely cancelled on November 30, 2022, if they have completed the first stage of the registration procedure but not the second phase.”
According to the statement, it is a component of the Ministry’s efforts to lessen SIM-related fraud instances, which have been on the fall since the exercise started.
It also cautioned individuals against using other people’s Ghana cards during the registration process, which they claim is a major contributing factor to the vast number of people who have linked their Ghana Card details to their SIM cards but are having trouble having their biometric data captured.
Because they used other people’s cards to link their numbers, some persons who have linked their phone numbers to Ghana cards have been unable to finish the bio capture of stage two. This includes merchants who utilized customers’ cards without their knowledge or permission. Phase Two’s failure to be completed by them is evidence of the reliability of the authentication system included into the SIM registration architecture. All falsehoods will be eliminated. You cannot register your SIM using another person’s Ghana card.
It also showed that 20,892,970 users had finished the SIM card registration process and that 30,011,082 had finished the first stage of linking their Ghana Card to their SIM Number (linkage and biometric capture).