Breaking News: Launch of SIM registration by fingerprint matching

The Dhaka Times Desk Prime Minister's Information Technology Advisor Sajib Wazed Joy officially inaugurated the SIM registration by matching the experimental fingerprints using the biometric system.

Inaugurating this program at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications today (Wednesday) morning, Sajib Wazed Joy said, 'Bangladesh is the second country in the world in terms of biometric SIM registration. I am proud of that.'

When the Honorable Information Technology Advisor reached the Ministry in the morning, he was welcomed by the Minister of State for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim. Later, Prime Minister's Information Technology Advisor Sajib Wazed Joy exchanged views with senior officials of ministries, regulatory agencies and various government companies.

The process starts with registering a Teletalk SIM in Joy's name. As soon as he gives his fingerprints, his national identity card information is automatically sent to Teletalk's server. Seeing this, the officials confirmed his ID. Post and Telecommunication Secretary Md handed over a Teletalk SIM to Joy after completing the registration process. Faizur Rahman Chowdhury. As Vijay's number is 16, Tarana Halim is known to have an excess of 16 numbers in the information technology advisor number.

It is known that from November 1, customers can register through biometric method from the mobile operator's customer care on an experimental basis. Mobile operators will start the final registration process through biometric system from December 16.

It is to be noted that due to the complaints of buying SIMs with false identity or without registration and using them for various crimes, recently this initiative has been taken to verify the information of the customers and re-register the SIMs.