Bangladesh Minister for Telecommunications Tarana Halim launched a biometric registration for Sims process at the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission's (BTRC) office on Wednesday.Halim said on Wednesday they resolved registration issues through trials launched just in November.”We have embarked on the journey of digital identification by launching biometric SIM registrations,” she announced.Subscribers now have to provide fingerprints while buying SIM card while owners of previously issued SIMs will have to register in the new process by April next year, she added.BTRC Chairman Shahjahan Mahmood assured representatives of the operators at the ceremony, including Grameenphone CEO Rajeev Sethi, Robi CEO Supun Weerasinghe, Banglalink CEO Erik Aas, to resolve any problems they face by 24 to 48 hours.Pakistan has registered some 72 million SIMs with biometrics to battle militancy, blocking another 26 million SIMs after their owners failed to register ownership linked to biometric data

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