News Forum - Thai authorities demand registration for individuals holding over five SIM cards

[Thaiger]

Under the leadership of Prasert Chantraruangthong, the Committee for the Prevention and Suppression of Cybercrime has mandated the registration of individuals possessing more than five SIM card numbers. The numbers are staggering. A whopping 7,664 individuals possess over 100 SIM cards, with Thai nationals holding 3,580,571 of them, and foreigners not far behind with 2,591,365. … …

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[Ramanathan.P]

Every person who buys a sim card have his ID or passport details recorded and a picture of him/her taken as the registration process. What are they mentioning here about registration? 

[HiuMak]

After 5 buys the authorities start working?

[Marc26]

14 hours ago, Ramanathan.P said:

Every person who buys a sim card have his ID or passport details recorded and a picture of him/her taken as the registration process. What are they mentioning here about registration? 

Every one of your posts is completely different than the reality I've experienced 

 

I've got many SIM cards and never once was photographed, never the 100's buying along side me photographed

 

Passports yes

 

 

Also I just did the E-Sim and no real identification provided online 

[garyknrd]

Don't know about you guys but I have always found 4 SIM cards to be more than enough..  

[Pinetree]

I have 3, but only one is Thai, the other two are  UK