Walking back from the decision of the re-registration of SIM cards, State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim on Thursday said the telecommunication operators will provide lists of all mobile subscribers to the NID (National Identity) Registration Wing of the Bangladesh Election Commission soon and the EC will scrutinise the lists. "Scrutinising the lists of subscribers, the NID Registration Wing will identify the real subscribers and fake subscribes. And two copies of separate lists of actual subscribers and fake subscribes will be handed over to the ministry as well as BTRC," she told reporters at the Secretariat after a meeting with chief executive officers (CEO) of mobile phone operators. On Wednesday, Tarana Halim had said that the re-registration of SIMs would start on Sunday (September 13) and continue till December 13. "Today, we changed our decision to minimise the sufferings of people," the junior minister said, mobile operators will ask their unauthorised subscribers to register their SIM cards as soon as possible, she said. "If the unauthorised SIM subscribers are unable to do so despite repeated warnings, their SIM cards will be deactivated permanently." The state minister said many subscribers brought more than one SIMs showing a single NID, and in that cases, the operators will phone them to know whether they own the SIMs or not. If the subscribers do not claim the SIMs sold against their NIDs, the authorities will deactivate the SIMs, she said, adding that the upcoming programme of SIM verification will start from Sunday and the programme will continue, according to a news agency.
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