Tanzania’s SIM card registration deadline ends today and Vodacom Tanzania is set to switch off over 400,000 SIM cards that have not been registered.
According to Vodacom, 95 percent of its users have registered their SIM cards but some 450,000 SIM cards remain unregistered and unaccounted for, and the telco will go ahead and switch them off today.
In 2012 end, Vodacom reported to have signed up over 9.35 million subscribers closely followed by Airtel with 8.35 million, Tigo with 6.37 million and Zantel with 3.08 million subscribers.
Tanzania telecoms regulator, Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) set July 10 midnight as the registration deadline.
Tanzania was the first East African country to migrate to digital broadcasting from analogue December last year and the SIM card switch off is likely to succeed unlike in other East African countries where deadlines have been extended several times especially on digital migration.
