UNB, Dhaka :State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications on Monday said the SIM cards of those who will fail to re-register their SIMs in biometric system by April 30 will be disconnected. “Those who’ll fail to re-register their SIM cards will be closed temporarily. Later, a message will be sent to SIM cardholders asking them for re-registration, and if they don’t respond those will get deactivated,” said the minister while talking to reporters at the Secretariat.The re-registration of the SIM cards through biometric method began on December 16 last and it will continue till April 30 next.Some vested quarters are spreading propaganda against biometric system for stopping it and they have also spent a whole lot of money on this, said Tarana.At least 24 webpages have been opened from outside the country to spread the propaganda against SIM card re-registration though biometric system and those who are doing this from the country are somehow involved in politics, she said. Replying to a question about confusion over biometric system, the State Minister said the fingerprints of the SIM cardholders are being taken for verification and no fingerprint is being stored during the re-registration of SIMs. Besides, if mobile operators violate the directives of the Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission they will have to pay Tk 300 crore as fine, she added.The junior minister also said a directive has been given to conduct re-registration of SIM cards at post offices across the country so that people from remote areas can do it easily.Besides, Tarana also said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also assured us that she will complete her SIM registration through biometric system soon. “So, there’ll be no confusion over it,” she said.
