Ugandan mobile phone users are still able to use unregistered SIM cards, some
five months after that was supposed to have been banned.
The networks were supposed to block unregistered SIM cards from the end of
last August. However, a local newspaper says that is has seen evidence that the
blocking is not fully operational.
According to an investigation by the New Vision newspaper, customers
from three of the five mobile networks are able to make voice calls and text messages without registering their details with the networks.
The newspaper did not reveal which three networks were still allowing
unauthorised calls to be made.
"We have already finished
SIM card registration. If the operators are allowing people to use mobile phones
without registering numbers then that is illegal," Godfrey Mutabazi, the UCC
executive director told the newspaper.
It had been estimated that around 1.5 million SIM Cards were cut off when the
deadline for registration expired on the 31st August 2013.
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