The Citizen on MSN

Rogue SIM agents exploit user registrations to fuel cybercrime

Dar es Salaam. Weak enforcement of SIM card registration rules and the misuse of customers' personal information by rogue mobile phone agents are fuelling online fraud, raising concerns over the ...
techtimes

SIM Card Registration Begins in The Philippines—How to Do It?

Subscriber Identification Mobile (SIM) cards are mainly used to connect to networks and deliver communication features for the user, and the Philippines is making it mandatory for its citizens to ...
The Nation Newspaper

SIM cards registration chaos

In a desperate last minute bid to beat the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) June 30th deadline for all existing GSM subscribers to register their subscriber identification module (SIM) or risk ...
The Citizen on MSN

Dishonest SIM registration agents are fueling Tanzania’s phone fraud networks

Dar es Salaam. Some dishonest mobile phone SIM registration agents are facilitating phone fraud by secretly registering SIM cards and selling them to criminal networks, this paper ...
The Nation Newspaper

SIM registration blues

The registration of subscriber identification module (SIM) cards has been on for over two years.The exercise ends on Sunday, but many subscribers are yet to be registered. Even those who registered ...
Global Voices Online

Philippines’s SIM Card Registration Act undermines privacy, online expression

This article is from EngageMedia, a non-profit media, technology, and culture organization. This has been edited and republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. In the ...
The Diplomat

Philippines’s Mandatory SIM Card Registration Threatens Privacy and Free Speech

The Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Card Registration Act, ratified recently by the Philippine House of Representatives and the Senate, is now awaiting the signature of President Rodrigo Duterte amid ...
ANTARA News

Biometric SIM registration is voluntary for existing users: Ministry

The Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has clarified that SIM card registration via biometric ...
The Jakarta Post

Industry backs biometric SIM card registration, seeks lower fees

As Indonesia begins biometric SIM card registration for new subscribers, operators and cybersecurity experts say the policy's ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation

Why millions of Africans are right to resist mobile SIM card registration

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Mobile SIM registration linked to digital ID is causing exclusion of marginalised groups, and ...
The Africa Report

Nigeria: Registration of SIM cards risks alienating those at the bottom of the pyramid

It took eight years to register about 42 million people on the NIN database. Nigeria has about 100 million mobile network subscribers, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) would need to ...