Government has announced a one month extension of the simcard verification, after a pile of pressure from Ugandans.
The Prime minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda in a letter to Uganda Communications Commission, UCC Executive Director this afternoon, announced that government has reviewed the latter’s directive to have all sim cards re-registered by tomorrow 20th April or be switched off, and decided to extend the timeline.
“You directed that all subscribers of telecommunication services must update their sim card registration details using their National Identification Card Number, and all sim cards whose details were not updated and verified by Thursday 20th April 2017 would be deactivated” part of the letter reads.
The Prime minister further writes; “the government has reviewed the said timelines and taken a decision that the ongoing sim card verification exercise should be extended to the 19th May 2017.”
