Sim card registration to begin on December 21

The Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (Art) have announced that sim card registration will begin on December 21.

Recent events have caused so many problems for the ART and public authorities, who had stressed the need for sim card registration over the past two years.

A crook posing as the new governor of the Littoral has scammed many people on the phone. However, the registration process helped the police track him.

According to the delegate of Art for the Littoral, West, Northwest and Southwest, a "repressive control will begin on December 21."

Jean-Marie Noah said this at a meeting with the four operators in the sector, a representative of MINPOSTEL, administrative authorities, and law enforcement.

"Operators have their database here. Our operation will have a national impact," said the delegate of Art to CT shortly after the meeting.

This, in fact, complies with regulations as it will protect citizens, mobile phone owners and "a weapon to perpetrate scams, theft under [uttering] death threats, acts of terrorism," he added.

Art recalled that a check carried out in August 2014 had revealed that many subscribers remained unidentified, misidentified, wore a false identity ("Mr. Head Paris"), and that some had thousands of sim cards.

Another campaign from May-June 2015 had so many shortcomings that persisted, also, the fact that the sales of sim cards in the street continued.

On this point, the regulator announced that unregistered sim sellers will now have their goods seized. Operators, themselves, will suspend unidentified numbers, reliability and update their data, do not activate sim cards without subscribers ID, etc.