The National Communications Authority (NCA) says individuals whose SIM cards will be blocked after the September 30 deadline set for the re-registration exercise can only retrieve them within a six-month grace period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unregistered SIM cards will afterwards be completely removed from the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Deputy Director for Consumer and Corporate Affairs at NCA, Mr. Kwame Gyan, this forms part of punitive measures to be instituted to rid the system of unregistered SIM cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to Roselyn Felli<\/strong> on Prime Morning<\/strong> on Tuesday, he said that there is no limit for SIM card registration as people purchase SIM cards on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His comments come at the back of NCA\u2019s resolve to roll out some punitive actions against users who have not registered their SIM cards starting Monday, September 5, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter you have gone off the network from the 30th of September, I mean from October 1st<\/sup>, you have a 6 month window to be able to get your number back by going through the registration process. If you fail to do that after 6 months, then of course we assume that you don\u2019t want your number back,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Outgoing calls and data services for a sequential batch of numbers will be blocked for 2 days weekly on a rotational basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Gyan believes the action taken by the NCA will ensure and enable people who are yet to get their Ghana cards registered to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He also said that, \u201cRegistration cannot be stopped, giving the sense that people keep on buying SIM cards every day. As long as you buy a new SIM card, you go through the process with the Ghana card, they will link it up for you, register it for you, and then hand over the SIM card to you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n