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Registration of mobile phone SIM cards begins
Dr Bitange Ndemo, Information and Communications Permanent Secretary, registers his SIM card assisted by Carolyn Musyimi of Zain during the launch of the Mobile Phone SIM registration on June 21, 2010. Photo/FREDRICK ONYANGO
Mobile phone operators and their 20 million subscribers in Kenya greeted the registration of cell phone owners with caution on Monday, saying the move may not help curb crime and hate mail in a big way.
The government began registering subscribers to the four mobile networks hoping to discourage increased acts of extortion, fraud and kidnapping that have been perpetrated through mobile phones.
