Burkina Faso goals to extend cellular safety within the African nation with a brand new invoice that claims customers can solely maintain two SIM playing cards (i.e., traces of service) from a cellular supplier.
And the sale of SIM playing cards will solely be made in authorised companies and factors of sale.
The usage of a number of SIM playing cards can permit for SIM farms to be constructed, that are sometimes related to organizations the place the SIM playing cards are related to pc servers to ship giant quantities of SMS spam.
Aminata Zerbo-Sabané, Burkina Faso’s Minister of Digital Transition, Posts, and Digital Communications, stated this measure is aimed toward lowering the improper use of digital communication companies.
The invoice will higher regulate the identification of consumers of digital communications service suppliers, and cut back the illicit use of cellular companies, she stated.