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www.cityweekend.com.cn — From today onwards, anyone purchasing a pre-paid mobile phone SIM card will have to provide identification. That includes foreigners, who will be required to present their passports or some other form of ID.

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ID Required to Purchase SIM Cards
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1 year 22 weeks ago Made popular 1 year 22 weeks ago
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ndmagxian
ndmagxian 1 year 22 weeks ago

Today i bought 2 new SIM cards. No passport required. No problem. And believe me: In 1 years time it is still no problem :-D. And in 10 years time it is still no problem. Tomorrow I am going to buy a couple of DVD's for a handful Renminbi's. When was the anti-piracy law announced in China? At some time in the past...It looks pretty on paper, in an Xinhua article and in the CCTV 9 news for the masses and is very "international". Yup.

chengduliving
chengduliving 1 year 22 weeks ago

That's good to hear. Requiring identification to buy a SIM card in China just doesn't feel right, even though that's how it works in most other countries. It's a luxury I don't want to give up!

cityweekend
cityweekend 1 year 22 weeks ago

Uhm... Uhm...
Enforcing directives and laws has always been China's big fat problem isn't it. It's such a huge country. Although with mobile phone policies it's actually easier. They could decide to cut off from the network all the SIM card owners who failed to register. Don't forget that China Mobile and China Unicom are state owned :)

chengduliving
chengduliving 1 year 22 weeks ago

Cutting off all mobile users without registered identification would reduce them to a cellular network the size of Finland overnight. I don't think this is a measure that warrants destroying their entire business.

I suspect that just before this went into effect, SIM card speculators bought SIM cards en masse. Like NDMag says, I think you'll be able to bypass this law for a long, long time. It's a good thing, too.

cityweekend
cityweekend 1 year 22 weeks ago

I agree with you. Has anyone on HHR had the pleasure to register their SIM card?

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