The re-registration of SIM cards officially kicks off today, October 1, 2021.
The exercise which is in accordance with the Subscriber Identity Module Registration Regulations, 2011, LI 2006 is to curb SIM Boxing and other criminal activities perpetrated by fraudsters using fake SIM cards and also to facilitate E-education, among others.
As a Ghanaian, you can register a total of 10 SIM cards across all networks but you can only do so with a Ghana card.
The exercise which is expected to last for six months will end on March 31, 2022.
According to the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation, unregistered after the deadline will be deactivated.
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