DILI, 15 june 2021 (TATOLI) – The National Communications Authority (ANC) urges the three telecommunications operators in Timor-Leste to immediately complete the SIM card registration process before 45 days are completed.
ANC President, João Olivio Freitas said, on may 28 this year, the authorities had given warnings to 3 telecommunications operators such as Telemor, Telkomcel and Timor-Telecom to complete the registration or registration process for SIM cards.
“We have advised that from may 28, we have given 45 days for operators to ensure that all SIM cards must be registered, and if until 45 days there is evidence that there are still SIM cards that have not been and can be used then we will open the administrative process against the operators,” the ANC President told reporters at the Ministry of Transport and Communications Office, tuesday.
The registration process itself has been started since 2016, but until 2021 these operators still have not fulfilled the responsibility to register every SIM card that has been marketed so that their identity is known.
João emphasized that for now the Authority will take a firmer decision until the specified time, operators who have not yet completed this task must go through an administrative process and be subject to fines.
For this year, the ANC opened the administrative process, the process against 2 operators, namely Telkomcel and Telemor, which finally decided that Telemor had to pay a fine of $223.200 for the state safe through ANC, including Telkomcel which is still in process.
“These are some of the processes that we can do for operators if they don’t comply with the orders in the field of law and ANC regulations, so this administrative process ANC can be carried out whenever it is proven that the operator or commits violations and regulations written in the decree of law number 15 /2012,” he said.
Journalist :Camilio de Sousa
Editor: Rafy Belo
