The Minister of Communication and Digitisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has warned that all sim cards and sim-enabled devices that will be unregistered by December will be blocked.
According to her, the government’s plan to re-register sim cards is part of a campaign to clamp down on cyber criminals hiding behind the anonymity of digital systems to commit antisocial acts.
In a Facebook post, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful noted that plans are far advanced to make the National Identification card (Ghana Card) the only national identity card for all identification and business purposes.
She said the ministry is also working to improve access to connectivity across the country with rural telephony and digital inclusion projects which will see the construction of 2016 solar-powered cell sites in unserved and underserved rural communities.
All SIM cards and SIM-enabled devices would according to the government would be re-registered from June and end in December 2021.
Below is Mrs Owusu-Ekuful’s full post:
It has become imperative that we clamp down on cybercriminals hiding behind the anonymity of digital systems to commit antisocial acts, and the Sim re-registration exercise is a key part of that campaign.
All SIM cards and SIM-enabled devices would be re-registered from June and end in December. All unregistered sims will be blocked.
Plans are far advanced to make the National Identification card (Ghana Card) the only national identity card for all identification and business purposes.
My ministry is also working to improve access to connectivity across the country with rural telephony and digital inclusion projects which will see the construction of 2016 solar-powered cell sites in unserved and underserved rural communities.
At the CEO’s summit, I told the participants that, digitization is the only way to ensure free trade across the continent and create an enabling system for trade financing using electronic means.
