Thailand to impose strict ID requirement for SIM cards

[silver_corolla]

All existing 21.5 million prepaid Thai and foreign mobile phone users in Thailand will have to report their citizenship identification or passport numbers to their respective phone operators within six months.





Bangkok Post via NewsEdge



The Thailand government will make it mandatory for consumers to produce either national ID cards or passports when buying SIM cards for prepaid mobile phones as part of efforts to beef up security against domestic terrorists.

In addition, all existing 21.5 million prepaid Thai and foreign mobile phone users in Thailand will have to report their citizenship identification or passport numbers to their respective phone operators within six months.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the Information Communication Technology Ministry had consulted with the National Telecommunications Commission on tighter regulations on SIM cards in prepaid mobile phones that were often used by insurgents to remotely detonate bombs.

The measures were agreed on at a meeting hosted by the ICT.

Joining the session were national security agencies, the Royal Thai Police Office, the NTC, TOT Corporation, CAT Telecom, Thai Mobile, the Telecommunications Association of Thailand, True Corporation and all private mobile phone operators.

The government warned that phone services would be cancelled if users failed to meet the SIM card registration deadline.

Thaksin cautioned, however, that traceability must not undermine SIM card sales and customer privacy.

Thaksin said the government needed to locate bombers swiftly. He made it clear the regulation would serve only security purposes.

[radiazone]

Same here in Taiwan.
Pagbumili ka ng prepaid simcard kailangan ng photocopy nang mga personal documents, like ARC, Passport and National Health Card after that the dealer of the simcard will fax the photocopy to the said network then wait 24hours activation.

[chieffy]

dapat i regulate na rin yung mga prepaid sims at pati cellphone mismo dito sa atin to para mabawasan cellphone related crimes...

yun nga lang madaling sabihin...may aaksyon kaya sa gobyerno natin?

[the_wildthing]

Sa daling makakuha ng SIM card dito sa Pinas, ang mga kidnapper pag tumatawag for ransom paiba-ibang SIM ang gamit. Tapon na kaagad pagkatawag ng isang beses.

Yung mga SIM-swap promo, ang daling makakuha. Minsan nahingi ng ID pero madalas hindi.

[bongliza]

Hope Phils. will do they same. But I guess they have to pursue the ID system first before they will do.

[baurtwellXUV]

sana nga ganyan din gawin ng NTC about sa regulation ng sim cards and dapat hindi pwdeng ipeke yung mga information. para alam mo na agad. para maiwasan na din yung mga cellphone related crimes...

[akoyon]

Ang problem satin pag nag implement ang government ng ganito maraming reklamador na ang sasabihin e violation of their privacy ek ek..kaya walang nangyayari

[baurtwellXUV]

hindi kasi makakakurakot yung mga criminal.. kung sino man sila.. yung mga government officials.. isa na yan.. hindi na sila makakakotong nyan/1

[boybi]

private naman lahat ng telcos dito, pwede naman nilang gawing SOP ang paghingi ng proper identifications when selling prepaid SIM cards. ang kaso, sobrang mukhang pera mga telcos para gawin nila yan!

[baurtwellXUV]

-boybi-

tama ka dun bro!