Less than a third of cell phone subscribers have registered their SIM cards

Erasmus Shalihaxwe The Executive Director of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Dr Audrin Mathe, has characterized the pace of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card registration by the public as sluggish. According to Mathe, only 795,991 out of 2,760,804 cellphone users have heeded the call. Dr Mathe revealed yesterday that the ministry is concerned about the lukewarm response from the public regarding registering their SIM cards with network service providers. “The set due date is looming, and he emphasized that it will not be extended,” he warned. According to the information received from the Communications Regulatory Authority (CRAN) as…