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Last I checked, you could activate a prepaid SIM without any proof of identity in the US. We don’t have a national ID card system. Postpaid does involve a credi

• g_p 5y ago
  In addition, these kinds of rules (in countries which have them) almost invariably do not apply to B2B sales, especially for machine to machine communications - at that scale the operator really only cares that they know which customer is footing the bill for the subscription. At least in my experience many years ago managing an enterprise mobile account, I could have SIM cards and handsets sent out with no name or similar allocated - the name was a nicety for getting the package to the right person, but there was absolutely no verification of anything. The name helped you reconcile the bills, so we had users on the account called "office spare 1" and "field engineer spare". Any customer support had to go through the B2B account. At scale, an M2M device customer won't be telling the operator anything else about the device or user - the customer will manage allocating subscriptions to vehicles or devices, and won't want to have to deal with their operator for this.