{"id":2100,"date":"2015-01-24T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2015-01-24T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T09:40:28","slug":"thailand-prepaid-sim-cards-users-will-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2100-thailand-prepaid-sim-cards-users-will-register","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: prepaid SIM cards users will have to register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting February 1st, it will be mandatory now to\u00a0show your passport to buy a prepaid SIM in Thailand. And for people\u00a0who already use prepaid cards, they\u00a0will have to register their identity\u00a0so\u00a0it will be\u00a0linked to their\u00a0number or lose just it.<\/p>\n

\"Thailand<\/p>\n

This requirement is part of a new regulation which will start\u00a0on 1 February and requires that each mobile phone number can be\u00a0related to an identified user. But if after that date, it will be impossible to buy a SIM card without proof of identity, those who already own an unregistered SIM card will have six months to make the necessary.<\/p>\n

In Thailand, there are more than 88 million unregistered prepaid SIM cards. After July 31, if their users did not register, they will no longer work.<\/p>\n

This measure was put in place to protect the public against fraud committed using these cards. This is also a matter of “national security” as the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission wants every SIM card to be\u00a0linked to an user because obviously unregistered users can not be tracked by the government.<\/p>\n

To register, you must bring\u00a0your\u00a0SIM card and proof of identity to your service\u00a0operator or in a 7-Eleven where registration will also be possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Starting February 1st, it will be mandatory now to\u00a0show your passport to buy a prepaid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}