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Uganda Delays SIM Card Registration Deadline
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Uganda's telecoms regulator has again extended the deadline for SIM cards to be registered by their users or face having them cut-off.
The deadline was due to expire last Thursday but has now been extended to the end of May. Although the move is a climb down for the regulator who had said there would be no further extensions, the mobile networks had wanted a year long delay.
Last month the networks were summoned to the regulator to discuss the issue as it was feared at the time that around a third of SIM cards still had not been registered. It has been estimated that around five million people are still to register their SIM cards - out of a total subscriber base of 17 million.
The main obstacle to registration has been the lack of ID documents by many customers. On average when a country enforces SIM card registration, around 10 percent of the currently active SIM cards are cut off.
The move has also been criticized for costing too much - with some estimates putting the registration process at US$40 million.
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