Decision on SIM re-registration’s time expansion today

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh Tele-communication Regularity Commission (BTRC) will take decision on expansion of biometric SIM re-registration time  today afternoon.

A meeting will be held in BTRC conference centre with State Minister for Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim in the chair.

Meanwhile, the operators predict more sufferings from the temporary deactivation of biometrically unregistered SIM cards after the deadline ends on Saturday.

According to Tarana, 83.8 million of 130 million SIM cards were re-registered biometrically by Thursday morning while at least 10 million subscribers have allegedly failed to re-register as their fingerprints did not match.

On Friday, subscribers sweated it out at the biometric re-registration centres under a blistering sun in a rainless summer. Many of them alleged they could not re-register after waiting for hours on end.

Risingbd/DHAKA/April 30, 2016/Hasan/Mukul