Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has revealed that some category of people have been excluded from the SIM card deactivation process.
Addressing the Parliament House on June 9, 2023, the Communications Minister noted that these category of people without the Ghana card noticed the National Communication Agency (NCA) with a prove of application for the Ghana card.
She added that subscribers out the country and subscribers who faced some genuine challenges during the SIM card registration process were also exempted from the deactivation.
According to the Communications Minister, staff of diplomatic all, Ghana Armed Forces abroad and refuses in Ghana have been excluded from get their SIM cards blocked.
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In a related news, using the Ghana Card, more than 28 million mobile SIM cards have been successfully registered, according to the Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful.
In a statement to Parliament on June 8, 2023, she stated that the start of the registration process on October 1, 2021, would go a long way toward assisting in the development and construction of a SIM database with integrity.
She also stated that the re-registration would help in reducing fraudulent activities and securing SIM card-based transactions.
She said “Mr. Speaker, so far, 28,948,142 SIMs have been fully registered while 999,419 have been exempted and so the total active SIMs are 29,947,561.”
She allayed the concerns of customers whose SIM cards had been disabled.
According to Ursula Owusu, telecommunications companies are working with the Bank of Ghana to ensure that customers with mobile money funds in their accounts can get those funds back.
She reassured the affected customers that while they won’t be able to use their deactivated SIMs for mobile transactions, their funds would still be recovered using the proper procedures.
