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Source: <\/strong>starrfm.com.gh<\/p>\n 2022-01-06<\/p>\n The long queues at the telecommunication service offices across the country for the SIM Card re-registration exercise is a software challenge, a telecom analyst, Derrick Laryea, has said.<\/p>\n Speaking to Francis Abban on Morning Starr Thursday, Mr. Laryea expressed worry on the chaotic turn of events with the ongoing re-registration of SIM cards across the country.<\/p>\n According to him, per his inside information the National Identification Authority (NIA) is not comfortable with the software being used in the data collection adding, that \u201cfrom the virtue of the fact that the NIA has complained about the manner in which the data is being collected.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPrivate data of citizens are being collected by a software that has been developed by another private company. There are so many questions that need to be answered. The software the telcos are using to collect the data is from a private company. You could speak to the NIA and check, don\u2019t take my word for it if you don\u2019t want to but that\u2019s the feedback I get, that it\u2019s from a private company,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n He continued \u201cWe are collecting this data and storing it. So it is important that we have a regulator, a Minister or Ministry involved in this process and it\u2019s really crucial that they speak up and it\u2019s important they bring a halt to this because it\u2019s a nightmare. Because these people mean no harm they just want to register their SIM cards and get on with their day to day business. It\u2019s quite sad that they have to go through this process of queuing for 6 to 8 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n The analyst also called on the Ministry of Communication, the National Communication Authority among other stakeholders to revisit the whole exercise in order to save Ghanaians from the ordeal of re-registration.<\/p>\n \u201cThey need to sit down and have a conversation that is in the public interest, not in any other person\u2019s interest or any other person\u2019s commercial interest. It needs to be in the interest of the consumer,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Business News of Thursday, 6 January 2022 Source: starrfm.com.gh 2022-01-06 SIM cards The long queues at the telecommunication service offices across the country for the SIM Card re-registration exercise is a software challenge, a telecom analyst, Derrick Laryea, has said. Speaking to Francis Abban on Morning Starr Thursday, Mr. Laryea expressed worry on the chaotic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"SIM](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/97360229.295.jpg\" "\\"SIM")
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