Legal Confusion as Millions of Sim Cards Blocked in Tanzania
About 20.4 million mobile telephone subscribers failed to biometrically register their subscriber identification module (SIM) cards by the January 20 deadline this year as required resulting to sim cards being blocked.Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) came 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.
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The biometric system will help nab criminals who use forged identities to register SIM cards which are then used to commit fraud and other crimes, the Tanzania Communications ... Read more »