SIM registration with biometric identification will begin on December 16 this year while its trial is going to take place on November 1.
TIM Nurul Kabir, secretary general of Association of Mobile Telecom of Bangladesh (AMTOB), revealed this at a press conference in the capital yesterday.
“We are ready to engage all our efforts in SIM registration process to continue the task smoothly. Ultimately, unregistered SIMs will be blocked, but later they could be reopened by providing proper information with NID,” Nurul said.
The entire process will be completed within six months, he said, urging the government to revise the guideline on SIM registration, in case the subscribers do not have any NIDs.
Nurul Kabir said all mobile operators had submitted millions of subscribers data to the NID wing of Election Commission for verification.
To reduce customers sufferings, all mobile operators will send a CODE to their subscribers to let them know about the registration, he said.
In case the operators fail to provide the CODE, the subscribers will stil be able to know about their registration status by sending SMS to their respective operators.