With less than three months to the deadline of the SIM card re-registration exercise, several branches of telecommunication companies across the country continue to record long queues as customers rush to re-register their SIM cards.
A trip to various branches of MTN, Vodafone and AirtelTigo saw many Ghanaians frustrated at the huge numbers converged at the offices to re-register their sim cards with the Ghana card or have their numbers deactivated by the end of March.
A drive through areas like Circle, Tudu, Osu and Dansoman, all in Accra, saw crowds of people gathered at different branches of MTN, Vodafone and AirtelTigo, all in the quest to re-register their SIM cards.
The seats provided for these customers were not enough for the huge numbers; hence most of these people had to form long queues in the hot sun.
Though it is unclear what was accounting for the queues, Citi Business News sources with the telcos say the system provided by KelniGVG to facilitate the exercise has been fraught with challenges, hence the slow process.
Conversations with some of these customers proved that many of them had been standing in queues for more than three hours, with some also lamenting the lack of communication and proper direction in some of the registration centres.
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