DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 21 -- THOUSANDS of mobile phone subscribers across the country on Monday failed to register their cards biometrically due to gridlock of the verification system at the National Identification Authority (NIDA).
It was a bleak day for a big number of mobile phone users, whose efforts to beat yesterday's deadline for unregistered SIM cards, ended in vain with the system overwhelmed.
"Many people turned out for biometric registration at the last minute as a result overwhelming the system at NIDA," an official who spoke on condition of anonymity told the 'Daily News' in a telephone interview.
The Minister for Works, Transport and Communication, Engineer Isack Kamwelwe, was clear-cut that all unregistered SIM cards would be...