Selorm Branttie

Sanctioning SIM re-registration defaulters counter digital inclusion

Selorm Branttie, Vice President of IMANI-Africa, believes the National Communications Authority’s (NCA) punitive measures against users of unregistered SIM cards are problematic. He emphasises that the sanctions do not take into account the difficulties of rural subscribers. The NCA’s directive to telecommunications companies to penalise people who have yet to register their SIM cards has been criticised by some stakeholders as an infringement on Ghanaians’ rights. Some people ...[Read More]

Sam George collects data to file class action over sim re-registration exercise

  Sam George, a member of Parliament’s Communications Committee, has begun gathering data in order to file a class action lawsuit against the National Communications Authority (NCA) over the sim card re-registration exercise. In a tweet, the MP for Ningo-Prampram asked Ghanaians affected by the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation to fill out a form on his page. This follows the NCA’s directive to telecommunications companies to penalize people who have yet to register ...[Read More]