{{The Rwanda Utility and Regulatory Authority RURA, announced [SIM card ->https://freesim.vodafone.co.uk/]registration exercise will officially kick off today 4th February, 2013 and last six months.}}
Children who do not have ID cards but own phones also their SIM number will be registered under their parents’ names.
The three telecom players, Tigo, MTN and Airtel will conduct the exercise and sensitize subscribers, with the sector watchdog as the supervisor.
The exercise is targeting a combined 5.2 million subscribers of the three telecom operators.
Jean Baptiste Mutabazi, the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) head of communication, told media that all subscribers are urged to register their [SIM cards->https://freesim.vodafone.co.uk/].
The SIM card registration is part of the regional exercise.
Under the East Africa Communications Organisation, the East Africa Community set mid-2012 as the deadline to have all existing [SIM cards->https://freesim.vodafone.co.uk/] registered.
The sim card registration process is also being conducted globally and has already been done successfully in Mauritius, Ghana and South Africa where you cannot buy a sim card without registering.
It is intended to cub cyber-crime and enhances security of lives and property of Rwandans.
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