{"id":21361,"date":"2021-05-19T21:11:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=21361"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:15:18","slug":"all-unregistered-sim-cards-will-be-blocked-by-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=21361","title":{"rendered":"All Unregistered Sim Cards Will Be Blocked By December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Minister for Communication and Digitization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has warned that all sim cards that are not re-registered by December will be blocked<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Facebook post, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful said the decision to re-register sim cards is part of measures to clamp down on cyber criminals hiding behind the anonymity of digital systems to commit antisocial acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that plans are far advanced to make the National Identification card (Ghana Card) the only national identity card for all identification and business purposes in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>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.\u201cAll 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.\u201cMy 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\u2019s 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. We are poised to deliver<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Below is the screenshot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.6chcdn.feednews.com\/assets\/v2\/2cea5c102eef42ce7ae395d3083fe86a-1?source=nlp&amp;quality=uhq&amp;format=webp&amp;resize=720\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>post by:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedistin.com\/about-us\/\">Collins<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedistin.com\/\">thedistin.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Send your news stories to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dannyboy744@gmail.com\">dannyboy744@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0and via WhatsApp on +233 266777777<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Communication and Digitization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has warned that all sim cards that are not re-registered by December will be blocked In a Facebook post, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful said the decision to re-register sim cards is part of measures to clamp down on cyber criminals hiding behind the anonymity of digital systems to commit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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