NCA ANNOUNCES MEASURES TO EASE CONGESTION AT SIM CARD RE-REGISTRATION CENTRES

The National Communication Authority (NCA) has reported measures to ease the human blockage which has characterised the progressing nationwide SIM re-enlistment work out.

In an explanation issued by the NCA on January 6, the Specialist recognized the challenges which have damaged the method, counting the long lines and human clog at the client care centres of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).

“The NCA gets it the disappointment and burden of clients in their offered to total the moment organize of the SIM Card enlistment prepare. As a result, the NCA has been working perseveringly with MNOs and the SIM Card enlistment application developer to move forward the enlistment prepare and moderate the current challenges”, the NCA expressed.

As portion of the measures to address the challenges, the NCA has subsequently reported the “arrangement of extra enrollment focuses commensurate with the supporter numbers of each MNO to ease blockage”.

Agreeing to the Authority, such “outlets such as wholesaler shops, retail centres and other operator touch focuses over the nation are being utilized for the SIM enrollment work out”. The NCA has hence called on endorsers to grasp the move to form the method smoother.

The NCA has moreover reported “the sending of different advertisement-hoc enrollment focuses at different open regions counting lorry parks, churches, mosques, etc to ease the clog at the client care centres”. The Specialist said with respect to this arrangement, declarations will be made to overhaul the open on the availability of such advertisement-hoc enrollment focuses in their particular regions.

In expansion to the over, the NCA has shown that it'll make extra brief areas at different government or state possessed endeavors counting NCA Regional Workplaces, Community ICT Centres set up by the Ghana Speculation Support for Electronic Communication (GIFEC), counting nationwide post workplaces.

At last, the NCA uncovered that it'll consider the “improvement and implementation of a day by day quantity and ticketing framework for SIM enrollment bio capture at the client care centres. MNOs will create frameworks to plan clients who have completed the primary stage, to visit particular centres by a given date or window for the moment stage of the enrollment”.

With these interventions, the NCA has in this manner encouraged the common open to take an interest within the continuous work out, which is expected to conclusion on 31st Walk, 2022.

Prior reports by the JoyNews group uncovered that, scores of citizens had been disappointed by the method, with a few debilitating to desert the work out inside and out. Agreeing to such wronged individuals, the long lines have been a disincentive to their support within the work out.

But the NCA has guaranteed that it is working beside the Service of Communications and Digitalisation and the MNOs to “guarantee that the SIM enrollment prepare is upgraded to create it quick, secure, secure and helpful for clients”.

To take part within the continuous work out, versatile phone clients are expected to total the primary arrange of the method by connecting their Ghana Cards with their SIM Cards, by dialing *404#. After that, they are required to visit a client care operator for the ultimate arrange of the work out.

When completed, the NCA says the work out will offer assistance in diminishing SIM related extortion, whereas making a dependable information of portable phone clients over the nation.