MTN Group Limited said on Friday that it is on track to restrict all services to about 5.7 million customers to comply with the Ghana National Communications Authority’s directive on unregistered SIM cards.
The telecommunications group said that it expects by the end of the day to complete deactivating the subscribers, who represent around 3 percent – 4 percent of MTN Ghana’s service revenue on an annualized basis and less than 1 percent of MTN Group service revenue.
In March, the company posted service revenue for 2021 of 171.8 billion South African Rand ($9.76 billion).
On Tuesday, it said customers who have completed stage one of subscriber registration but not stage two would be fully barred, effective from Dec. 1. The first stage relates to the linkage, while the second relates to biometrics.
“MTN Ghana remains committed to supporting the government of Ghana’s efforts to continue driving subscriber registrations and has implemented several initiatives to accelerate the process,” the company said.
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