The human resource director in the Ministry of Works, Transport and Communications, Ms Kitolina Kippa, has her fingerprints recorded when registering her new mobile phone line during the launch of biometric registration of Sim cards at Mlimani City in Dar es Salaam. PHOTO | ERICKY BONIPHACE
What you need to know:
The new system – which is being spearheaded by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), initially as a pilot exercise – requires customers to provide fingerprints as proof of identity to complete the registration processes.
