Those who have registered their mobile phone SIM cards properly during purchase will not be required to go through the process again, says the telecom regulator. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose at a press briefing on Monday said, “Not all of the 130 million SIMs will have to be registered again.” The re-registration process has been going on for the past three months. According to BTRC data, there were about 128.7 million mobile-phone subscribers in Bangladesh until July this year. Bose said he attended a meeting convened on this issue at the Posts and Telecommunication Division on Sunday. “The meeting decided that the unregistered SIMs will have to be registered. But I don’t think every single one of the 130 million SIMs are fake,” he said. The BTRC recently started a drive to stop the sale of unregistered SIMs following allegations that some of these untraceable SIM cards were being used for criminal operations. Minister of State for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim has also personally taken initiatives to prevent use of unregistered SIMs. She took part in some of the BTRC drives conducted as part of the crackdown to stop the sale of unregistered SIMs, according to a news agency.
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