Tanzania’s communication regulator has fined six phone companies for giving out Sim cards without demanding users register their details.
Among them is Vodacom who were fined 945,000,000 Tanzanian shillings (£324,000; $422,00). Airtel, Smart, Tigo, Zantel and Halotel were also fined.
The Tanzania Regulations Communications Authority said in a press release that the phone companies had given out Sim cards without necessary documents like their ID and without taking photos of the subscribers.
In 2015, the Nigerian authorities fined the South African mobile phone company MTN $5.2bn after it failed to disconnect all non-registered Sim card.
That fine was later reduced after discussions between MTN and the Nigerian authorities.
BBC
