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In Australia, they also make you provide ID for any sim card for your mobile that you buy. Looks like it might be time to head to the UK, since they decided to

In Australia, they also make you provide ID for any sim card for your mobile that you buy. Looks like it might be time to head to the UK, since they decided to scrap the ID card.

taitems 16y ago
Don't worry, you can still use the pay-phones to organise your drug deals. What a terrible thing to take issue with.
- andrewtj 16y ago
  That's right — registration prevents drug dealers from getting disposable phone numbers because they are incapable of circumventing the law.
zmmmmm 16y ago
Hmm - I just bought a sim card on Monday - over the internet. It came yesterday, works great. http://www.tpg.com.au/mobile/plans.html http://www.tpg.com.au/mobile/plans.html Now - they do have a fix on me - my credit card and the fact that the sim card was sent to my home address. I don't know if they would have baulked if my CC address was different to the address where the sim went. However at no point did they ask for or see any actual identification of me.
- Devilboy 16y ago
  They have your name, address and credit card number. That's more than enough identification.
  - zmmmmm 16y ago
    Sure, but I could easily have lied about all those things except the CC number, which is why I wonder if it would have gone to 'manual verification' if my address didn't match. From all appearances I could enter any name, address and get a phone tied to that identity, with the billing going somewhere else.
    - Devilboy 16y ago
      You can also provide false ID when you buy them in person. That's not the point.
mahmud 16y ago
BS. Arab-American here, bought a SIM with no questions asked at an Optus booth.
- Devilboy 16y ago
  Did you pay cash? Did you have to register by phoning Optus before using the SIM?
  - mahmud 16y ago
    I paid cash and didn't have to do anything.
- bennysaurus 16y ago
  By law they are meant to (I used to sell them) - depends on the guy behind the checkout though.
- andrewtj 16y ago
  That's quite extraordinary — I've registered prepaid SIMs with Telstra, Vodafone and Virgin which have all required registration in order to receive calls and be topped up; a process which Google tell's me via http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/LegislativeInstrumentCompilation1.nsf/framelodgmentattachments/B4106DE9FC882E60CA25701A0020754C http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/LegislativeInstr... is the norm.

In Australia, they also make you provide ID for any sim card for your mobile that you buy. Looks like it might be time to head to the UK, since they decided to scrap the ID card.

taitems 16y ago

Don't worry, you can still use the pay-phones to organise your drug deals. What a terrible thing to take issue with.

andrewtj 16y ago
That's right — registration prevents drug dealers from getting disposable phone numbers because they are incapable of circumventing the law.

zmmmmm 16y ago

Hmm - I just bought a sim card on Monday - over the internet. It came yesterday, works great. http://www.tpg.com.au/mobile/plans.html http://www.tpg.com.au/mobile/plans.html Now - they do have a fix on me - my credit card and the fact that the sim card was sent to my home address. I don't know if they would have baulked if my CC address was different to the address where the sim went. However at no point did they ask for or see any actual identification of me.

Devilboy 16y ago
They have your name, address and credit card number. That's more than enough identification.
- zmmmmm 16y ago
  Sure, but I could easily have lied about all those things except the CC number, which is why I wonder if it would have gone to 'manual verification' if my address didn't match. From all appearances I could enter any name, address and get a phone tied to that identity, with the billing going somewhere else.
  - Devilboy 16y ago
    You can also provide false ID when you buy them in person. That's not the point.

mahmud 16y ago

BS. Arab-American here, bought a SIM with no questions asked at an Optus booth.

Devilboy 16y ago
Did you pay cash? Did you have to register by phoning Optus before using the SIM?
- mahmud 16y ago
  I paid cash and didn't have to do anything.
bennysaurus 16y ago
By law they are meant to (I used to sell them) - depends on the guy behind the checkout though.
andrewtj 16y ago
That's quite extraordinary — I've registered prepaid SIMs with Telstra, Vodafone and Virgin which have all required registration in order to receive calls and be topped up; a process which Google tell's me via http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/LegislativeInstrumentCompilation1.nsf/framelodgmentattachments/B4106DE9FC882E60CA25701A0020754C http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/LegislativeInstr... is the norm.