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Vodafone SIM Card Registration Begins

Accra, July 6, Ghanadot - Vodafone Ghana has started the registration of SIM cards of its customers under a nationwide programme following a NCA directive to all mobile operators in the country to register all new SIM cards to be purchased effective July 1, 2010.

From July 1, 2010 all new Vodafone SIM card holders have the opportunity to reach out to any of the Vodafone registration centres, provide their personal details backed by an official national identity document to the service provider and be registered before they can make calls with the new SIM.

Existing customers have up to a year to get their SIM cards registered.

For many mobile phone users, the exercise will put to an end a wide range of malefactors who have ruthlessly exploited the relative obscurity and anonymity of mobile phones to bring untold fear, confusion and mental anguish to law-abiding citizens. For Vodafone, it is an opportunity to get to know our customers much more closely.

According to the National Communications Authority and the Ministry of Communications, the SIM card registration aims to safeguard the public against a spate of insecurity, including terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, extortion, hate messages and incitement.

In an interview with Ekow Blankson, Trade Marketing Manager of Vodafone said the exercise is going very smoothly, stressing that, “people usually spend less than five minutes with a registration officer. He said Vodafone had put out 2,000 trained persons across the length and breadth of the country to implement the registration exercise.

He noted that these people will help register persons who are unable to reach our retail shops or the mounted registration centres.

“Additionally we are conducting massive educational campaign to heighten the consciousness of customers and Ghanaians in general about the need to register their SIM cards and ensure that their details are adequately protected.”

He explained that the exercise by Vodafone has an added advantage whereby customers can pre-register their SMS before they come to a registration officer. “What this means is that customers can register through the SMS before coming to the centre for validation by the registration assistant. Besides 600 Vodafone staffs have been trained to register their friends and relatives as a means of increasing the coverage of registration within the 31 –day period.”

Later in an interview, customers called for more registration assistants at the centres to ensure faster service delivery.

Manu, like a number of customers they pre-registered their SIM cards earlier and thus spent much less time with the agents.

Some of them however, complained about the effects of the use of fake identity cards by certain unscrupulous persons and called on the telecommunication companies to be alert to such machinations. Others were of the opinion that without a properly designated house numbering and National ID system, it was difficult to trace people.

 





 


 

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