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ZICTA will not again extend SIM card registration period

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The Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) has reiterated that it will not extend the SIM card registration period beyond the 31st January 2014 deadline.

ZICTA Director-General Margret Mudenda said the authority has re-positioned itself and sent teams across the country on a vigorous sensitization drive and to register SIM cards.

Mrs. Mudenda said ZICTA has put media alerts on both electronic and print media to sensitize the public about the final deadline for SIM registration.

She told ZANIS in an interview today that ZICTA had invested a lot money and time in SIM card registration exercise in order for all Zambians to comply.

She further reiterated that the SIM card registration exercise was not aimed at invading privacy but at enhancing national security.

Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Minister Yamfwa Mukanga had earlier set 30th
December 2013 as the deadline for SIM card registration.

A total of 6.8 million subscribers had registered their SIM cards out of a mobile service subscriber base of 10.3 million of all mobile phone users in Zambia for all the three service providers namely Airtel, Zamtel and MTN.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Mudenda has supported government on plans to pursue online authors and publishers who publish criminal, libelous, defamatory, treasonous and seditious statements.

She said the authority was equally irritated by some authors and publishers of articles and pledged to work with its stakeholders, government and the law enforcement agencies to bring perpetrators to book.

ZANIS

6 COMMENTS

  1. Scaremongering ….let them switch off 4 million SIM unregistered cards and lets see how they will collect their revenue.
    Wake up people!!

  2. 6.8 registered..???…true or a propaganda figure…?…just disable the rest don’t tell us anything more….

  3. compliancy levels should upped to ensure levels of resubmission of documents are curtailed to avoid what we have seen elsewhere documents for people being used to register others

    Let the service providers provide a validation check and ensure only those registered on documents are actually the bornafide owners of Reg or passports Publication of the registered might help to ensure compliance and might be useful to other units also.Reduce also on the number of agents and protect the process from by pass In other nearby countries it common for people to approach you for registration services in a black market way at major centers of transit even near the service providers at a fee…

  4. Good lets end this rubbish debate on SIM cards which is a straight forward issue and concentrate on important things like the consttution ,

  5. I am sure you have seen ladies with sim packs and talk time with access to data bases with a minute or so and without an document ,one is registered at a fee at some major transit centers

    This process often involves some use of other peoples data and is often a compromise to the process of validation verification and use of numbers by individuals with Reg/Passport obtained from unsuspecting hotel lodgers often asked to make copies

    Up compliance levels and avoid use of too many non service fully employed registration agents especially for now and even later with carefully spread fully employed registered agents

    if the data base of registered is to be correct as may be validated other wise a business of fee charging agents will take the opportunity and often with…

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