Government issues 7 days ultimatum for sim card verification

Government has issued a 7 days ultimatum to all mobile phone users to verify whether the data given while registering their Sim-cards corresponds with that on their National IDs or risk being switched off.

This has followed the increasing acts of criminality in the country by people using unregistered sim-cards which has made it hard for the authorities to trace their details.
By the time of this ultimatum, Uganda Communication Commission had issued a directive to telecommunication companies 2 weeks back ordering them to switch off unregistered sim-cards something that was never complied with.

Addressing journalists at the Uganda Communication Commission Head offices in Bugolobi shortly after a meeting with heads of telecommunication companies in the country, UCC boss Godfrey Mutabazi says it has come to their notice that there are some people who used fake information while registering their sim-cards.

Mutabazi has meanwhile urged those mobile phone users without National IDs to go to NIRA and register for the IDs to make it easy for them to register their sim-cards.