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23 Nov

High Court Throws Out Case Against Re-registration Of SIM Cards

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The Accra High Court has dismissed an application by nine people challenging the legality of the registration of SIM cards with the Ghana Card as the source document. The applicants invoked the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court seeking the court to quash the decision by the Minister of Communications to make the Ghana Card the only registration document. The applicants also wanted the court to quash a directive by the Ministry for everyone to register within a certain period or risk their SIM cards being blocked. However in a judgment, the court, presided over by Justice Charles Ekow Baiden,…

08 Sep

Don’t Blame Your Service Provider For Sanctions If You Don’t Register Your SIM Cards – Ursula Owusu

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The Minister for Communication and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful says mobile telephony subscribers should not blame their service providers for failure to register their SIM cards. According to her, a full raft of punitive measures will soon be rolled out against those who fail to register their SIM Cards, using the Ghana Card. In this regard, she stressed in a Facebook post on Wednesday that, “At a subsequent press conference in September, the full scope of the sanctions will be revealed. If you suffer that fate as a result of your own inaction, kindly do not blame your service provider. To…