SIM card sales suspended for 18hrs today
Sales or replacement of SIM cards will remain suspended for 18 hours from 8pm today as the telecom regulator will update its central biometric verification monitoring system during the period.
The decision came after State Minister for Telecommunication Tarana Halim inaugurated the central biometric verification monitoring system. The system goes live from tomorrow.
"The system will help verify user identification, which will ultimately ensure customers authentication," Tarana told reporters at the secretariat yesterday.
All mobile phone operators have already sent the information of the re-registered and verified mobile phone users to the central biometric verification monitoring system at Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), she added.
BTRC will now verify the information against the national database.
The government enforced the re-registration and verification of mobile phone users' information through the biometric process in the first half of 2016.
All the operators now have to follow the biometric verification process to sell new connections.
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