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4 SIM registrations per citizen? Why are there 1.3B registrations for a country with 273M people?

• salawat 4y ago
  Why should SIM registrations map 1:1 with population? Mayhaps they wish to make it more difficult to use SIMs as a 1:1 personal identifier, requiring authorities and each other to interpret them as handset/endpoint identifiers only, as Zul intended? Or perhaps third parties are using lax policies in indonesia as a jumping off point for getting into the telecom network? Or your count isn't taking into account legal fictions as the purchaser of multiple endpoints? The reasons are myriad.
• michaelsalim 4y ago
  Many reasons. Multiple phones, multiple accounts (for apps that require a phone number). Separate number for work & friends. As a dedicated 4G router. These are just some of my use case. I'm sure there are more out there.