Off the wire
• Putin, Kerry meeting in Moscow over Syrian crisis  • WCO, trade lobby ink deal to boost EAC competitiveness  • Danish Superliga football club sold to British investors  • Police officers escape unhurt in Al-Shabaab ambush in Kenya  • More than half of Belgians want no arrival of migrants: survey  • Kenya says Nairobi trade talks require goodwill  • Opening of EU negotiations to bring Serbia prosperity: PM  • U.S. researchers concerned about decrease in gov't-funded clinical trials  • France welcomes China's admission to EBRD  • EU presents new border guard plan to stem migrant influx  
You are here: 　 Home

Bangladesh to allow registration of maximum 20 SIMs with one ID card

Xinhua, December 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Bangladeshi government will allow a person to register maximum 20 cellular phone subscriber identification module (SIM) cards with his or her national identity card.

"We've decided to allow maximum 20 SIMs cards for a person as parent could register more cellular phone connections for their children who don't have national identity cards," State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim was quoted as saying by state media in report Tuesday.

The minister said Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will issue directives in this regard in a few days. Endit