Despite re-registration, my SIM card was blocked for two days - Mahama 'Cries' Foul.
Former President John Dramani Mahama has stated that he was subjected to a slew of punitive measures implemented by the National Communication Authority (NCA) at the request of the Communications Ministry against individuals who had not reregistered their SIM cards.
According to him, his SIM card was disabled, preventing him from making a phone call for two days.
He stated that this was despite the fact that he and members of his staff had reregistered their SIM cards in accordance with the National Communications Authority's (NCA) directive to the telcos.
In an interview with Accra-based TV3, Mahama stated that it was difficult for the NCA and other regulatory bodies to impose punitive measures on people who were unable to register their SIM cards through no fault of their own.
"When it comes to SIM registration, you can even start with new SIM cards and say 'No Ghana Card, No SIM card' if you're buying. So we can start there while we clean up the rest of the system. But if you say that everyone must have it by September 30th or else we will take punitive actions against you...your data will be more expensive, we will block your outgoing calls, and so on and so forth, that's a major problem.
"I must admit that I had some of that experience with the call barring." My outgoing calls were not going through on one of my phones. My SIM card was disabled for two days. They have reactivated it. We went through the registration process. They claimed it was not properly registered. That's the kind of information I got; we didn't finish the exercise, but they came here and sat with us and did SIM registration here, and we called them to my office, and so all my staff and everybody went through the registration, but most of my staff's calls were blocked," Mahama explained.
The NCA has announced a series of punitive measures for those who have not reregistered their SIM cards this month.
Calls are barred, data services are expensive, and all outgoing calls are re-routed to an interactive voice recording (IVR) for a SIM registration sensitisation message to be played before all calls are connected.
The most stinging measure is the ban on outgoing calls, which has compelled some SIM card subscribers to throng various registration centers in a last-minute attempt to register their SIMs.
Subscribers have until September 30 to reregister their SIM cards or their services will be deactivated.
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