Dar es Salaam — Legal confusion has surfaced over the biometric Sim card registration exercise - with the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) coming under attack for what critics say is the regulator's resolve to push for a procedure that is not provided for in the country's statute books.
At the centre of the current national chaos surrounding the exercise is a TCRA guideline that only people with the National Identification Authority (Nida) identity card can have their Sim cards registered - and are, thus, spared from having their mobile telephony communication disconnected.
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