Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH - The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) announced on Wednesday that the deadline for fingerprint registration for mobile phone consumers of all service providers in the Kingdom will expire on July 20 (Shawwal 15).
The mobile phone connection of all types of subscribers, including post-paid and pre-paid ones, who failed to register fingerprinting and update data will be disconnected after this date and there won’t be any more extension of the grace period, the Saudi Press Agency reported quoting a commission statement.
Earlier, CITC had extended the deadline for fingerprint registration for both post-paid and pre-paid customers for more than one time. The CITC decision was announced last year, but implementation was delayed because some mobile service operators in the Kingdom required time to obtain fingerprint registration devices from abroad. The decision was based on the Ministry of Interior’s request to ensure information of SIM cardholders are protected, and to prevent people from obtaining mobile phones with fraudulent identification cards.
