{"id":447200,"date":"2011-06-24T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/24\/communication-ministry-awaits-nca%e2%80%99s-advice-on-sim-card-registration\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:55:10","slug":"communication-ministry-awaits-ncas-advice-on-sim-card-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/24\/communication-ministry-awaits-ncas-advice-on-sim-card-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Ministry awaits NCA\u2019s advice on SIM card registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"74.7162162162\">\n<p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/ict\/\" title=\"View all posts in ICT\" rel=\"category tag\">ICT<\/a> \u00bb Communication Ministry awaits NCA\u2019s advice on SIM card registration<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Friday, June 24, 2011 15:15 PM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<div readability=\"7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/haruna-iddrisu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13187\" title=\"haruna-iddrisu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/haruna-iddrisu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haruna Iddrisu &#8211; Communications Minister<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Communication is awaiting \u201csound advice\u201d, from the National Communication Authority (NCA), to enable the Ministry to decide if the period for registering mobile phone Sim cards should be extended or not.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Haruna Iddrisu Minister of Communication gave the hint at a workshop on \u201cElectromagnetic Fields Exposure and Health\u201d, organized by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications, in Ho on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that the Ministry\u2019s decision would be in the national interest.<\/p>\n<p>Until the Ministry of Communication decides otherwise, mobile phone users would be required to register their Sim cards by Thursday June 30, or have them de-activated.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Haruna said the registration of mobile Sim cards would eliminate abuses in the use of mobile phones adding that guidelines have been developed to regulate a telephony sector in which subscribers would have value for money.<\/p>\n<p>He said those guidelines were being developed into regulations before being taken to Parliament for passage into law.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Haruna said 4,000 mobile phones would be distributed among a number of essential service providers to facilitate emergency response.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile with a week to the June 30th deadline, offices of most communication companies in Ho are regularly inundated with subscribers calling to register their sim cards.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ebenezer Biedo, Branch Manager of MTN, and Mr Elorm Kwesi Kpe, Regional Sales Manager of Expresso, told the GNA that the response was positive and that might suggest that more time would be needed to capture every subscriber.<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/06\/24\/communication-ministry-awaits-nca\u2019s-advice-on-sim-card-registration\/\" title=\"Communication Ministry awaits NCA\u2019s advice on SIM card registration\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Communication Ministry awaits NCA\u2019s advice on SIM card registration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb ICT \u00bb Communication Ministry awaits NCA\u2019s advice on SIM card registration Page last updated at Friday, June 24, 2011 15:15 PM \/\/ Haruna Iddrisu &#8211; Communications Minister The Ministry of Communication is awaiting \u201csound advice\u201d, from the National Communication Authority (NCA), to enable the Ministry to decide if the period for registering mobile phone Sim cards should be extended or not. Mr Haruna Iddrisu Minister of Communication gave the hint at a workshop on \u201cElectromagnetic Fields Exposure and Health\u201d, organized by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications, in Ho on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":447201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-447200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Communication Ministry awaits NCA\u2019s advice on SIM card registration - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/24\/communication-ministry-awaits-ncas-advice-on-sim-card-registration\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Communication Ministry awaits NCA\u2019s advice on SIM card registration - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"You Are Here: Home \u00bb ICT \u00bb Communication Ministry awaits NCA\u2019s advice on SIM card registration Page last updated at Friday, June 24, 2011 15:15 PM \/\/ Haruna Iddrisu - Communications Minister The Ministry of Communication is awaiting \u201csound advice\u201d, from the National Communication Authority (NCA), to enable the Ministry to decide if the period for registering mobile phone Sim cards should be extended or not. 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