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Mon, May 13th 2013, 12:13 · Martin Cheruiyot

Rwanda confident of meeting July SIM registration deadline

The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) is confident all mobile users will have registered their SIM cards before the July deadline despite around 40 per cent yet to have done so. → Read more
Fri, May 10th 2013, 09:57 · Nanine Steenkamp

SA Smart Card IDs to arrive in July

The South African Minister of Home Affairs, Naledi Pandor, announced the arrival of smart card identification documents (IDs) for the country by July this year in her budget speech on Thursday, May 9. → Read more
Fri, May 3rd 2013, 11:30 · Susan Mwenesi

Rwandan SIM registration goes digital

Rwandans living in the Diaspora can now register their SIM cards online, saving them from having to return home to beat the July 31 registration deadline. → Read more
Tue, March 26th 2013, 10:12 · Paul Adepoju

NCC nabs three telecoms agents for pre-registering SIM cards in southern Nigeria

The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has arrested three agents companies for flouting the commission’s guidelines on the registration of SIM cards in Nigeria. → Read more
Thu, March 21st 2013, 10:31 · Paul Adepoju

NCC to deactivate unregistered SIM cards following next week’s launch of MNP

The head of media and publicity at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Reuben Muoka has stated every unregistered SIM card on every GSM network in Nigeria will be deactivated following the launch of mobile number portability (MNP) next Monday. → Read more
Tue, March 19th 2013, 08:42 · Elly Okutoyi

Rwanda’s unregistered SIM cards to be switched off by July

Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) has announced all SIM cards still unregistered by July 31 will be switched off and no extension will be offered. → Read more
Thu, February 28th 2013, 13:56 · Elly Okutoyi

Online company registration website now live in Kenya

Entrepreneurs seeking to register their companies with the Kenyan government can now do so online following the launch of a web-based platform called Incorporator. → Read more
Fri, February 15th 2013, 08:23 · Nanine Steenkamp

Zambia SIM registration delayed

Airtel Zambia’s lack of registration forms has halted the country’s SIM card registration process. → Read more
Thu, January 31st 2013, 13:12 · Vincent Matinde

Safaricom disconnects 2.5 million unregistered SIM cards

Kenyan major integrated telecom company Safaricom has said it has switched off an additional 1.3 million unregistered SIM cards, bringing the total number of cards it disconnected to 2.5 million. → Read more
Mon, January 14th 2013, 09:35 · Brandon Gregory

CCK: More than 2.4 million Kenyan SIM cards deactivated

The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) reports more than 2.4 million unregistered SIM cards have been deactivated by the country’s four mobile service providers as it continues its push to keep track of mobile users. → Read more
Mon, January 7th 2013, 10:07 · HumanIPO

SIM deactivation delays disempowers authority threats

Despite multiple threats of SIM card deactivation of unregistered Kenyan mobile subscribers and prison sentences, millions of unregistered users are still able to continue as before as the operators struggle to keep up. → Read more
Fri, January 4th 2013, 08:14 · Kamau Mbote

COFEK says prosecution of unregistered SIM card users unwarranted

The Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) has condemned a decision by the government to prosecute unregistered SIM card holders, saying the focus should be on the network providers switching them off. → Read more
Thu, January 3rd 2013, 09:42 · Elly Okutoyi

CCK threatens unregistered SIM cardholders with hefty fines

Kenya’s communications industry regulator the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has threatened mobile phone users with hefty fines or jail terms of up to three years if they fail register their SIM cards by tomorrow. → Read more
Wed, January 2nd 2013, 12:17 · Kamau Mbote

Switched off Kenyan SIM cards to be reassigned to new users

SIM cards set to be suspended from service in Kenya for being unregistered will be deactivated permanently and reassigned to new subscribers, Communications Commission of Kenya’s (CCK's) director of consumer and public affairs Mutua Muthusi said yesterday. → Read more
Wed, December 5th 2012, 07:49 · Vincent Matinde

Opinion: Biometric Voter Registration gives an opportunity for identity database

You have probably seen it on the American hit show, Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) – criminals being nailed over a simple fingerprint or a strand of DNA. This could be far-fetched in some parts of Africa, but is it possible for the continent? → Read more
Fri, October 26th 2012, 13:04 · Robert K'Odingo

Zambia SIM registration reportedly slow over fears of victimisation

A move by Zambia’s communications industry regulator, the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA), to have mobile users in the country register their SIM cards started on a “slow note” nationwide, amid fears that information could be used against people for political reasons. → Read more
Mon, October 15th 2012, 14:10 · Dan Sudi

OPINION: Kenyan government ought to crack whip on unregistered SIM card vendors

Kenya’s government, through its communications regulatory body the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), needs to come up with rules and regulations that bar SIM card vendors from selling non-registered cards, in addition to formulating stiffer penalties for lawbreakers. → Read more
Tue, July 31st 2012, 09:52 · Elly Okutoyi

Rwanda to register SIM cards electronically

Rwanda’s government has issued a directive calling for registration of SIM cards electronically, even as the country aims to beat the mid-2012 deadline to have all Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards in East Africa registered. → Read more
Fri, July 13th 2012, 10:29 · Dan Sudi

Agencies round up to curtail sale of non-registered SIM cards in Nigeria

Mobile network operator MTN Nigeria has partnered with Nigeria’s communications regulator, the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), to hold in the illegal sale of pre-registered SIM Cards. → Read more
Wed, June 27th 2012, 10:29 · Dan Sudi

14 Arrested for SIM Card fraud in Nigeria

Fourteen people have been arrested in Nigeria following allegations of SIM card fraud. This comes after Nigeria’s communications regulator, the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), cracked a whip on the vice. → Read more