A maximum of 15 SIMs can be purchased against a national identity card. There is no such thing as postpaid or prepaid. Any type of SIM and all operators together will count to 15.
The decision was taken at a meeting with representatives of BTRC, law enforcement and other departments and departments on Sunday, said Sajeeb Wazed Joy, information technology adviser to the prime minister.
However, on Thursday, State Minister for Telecommunications Tarana Halim told reporters that a maximum of 20 SIMs could be purchased with one national identity card. But in two days it went down to the original 15.
An official of the concerned department said that instructions will be sent to the operators in the next one or two days.
Unlike an NID, there are sometimes 15, of which more than five can be prepaid. Sometimes there is talk of registering 20 SIMs.
However, the decisions were not implemented in the end. Because in the middle of last year, when the first 20 SIMs were registered against an identity card, the process of biometric registration was completed at that time.
That is why many customers may have registered this number of SIMs as opposed to a national identity card before that, said an official of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission.
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