Limits set on number of SIM cards individuals can buy

By Thai PBS

 

 

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has decided to impose a cap on the number of SIM cards that each individual subscriber can buy.

 

NBTC secretary-general Takorn Tanthasit said that under the new measure endorsed by the regulator, each individual subscriber can buy a maximum of five SIM cards from each of the mobile phone service providers.

 

If the subscriber wants to buy more than five SIM cards, he or she must buy the additional cards at the service centres of the service providers who will be required to report the purchases to the NBTC office.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/limits-set-number-sim-cards-individuals-can-buy/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-07-26

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has decided to impose a cap on the number of SIM cards that each individual subscriber can buy.

Looks like someone may have had a word with them. Send in the clowns!

This will easy to enforce. ? ? 

 

Mind you 5 SIM cards (or numbers) per provider will still entitle the person to 15 or 20 SIM cards and numbers. It would be interesting to see how the average person would justify that number of phone numbers let alone being able to afford to keep them active. 

That's a bright idea, 

Why?

 

Anybody?

41 minutes ago, BigBadGeordie said:

Why?

Anybody?

God has spoken.

 

 

BigBadGeordie Platinum Member

why? to stop reselling sim cards to unregistered users.Now you will ask: why some people do not like to be registered?

5 minutes ago, basatop said:

BigBadGeordie Platinum Member

why? to stop reselling sim cards to unregistered users.Now you will ask: why some people do not like to be registered?

So that is why, I thought it may have been due to to the setting up of "boiler rooms"; gambling call centres; illegal lottery; ponzi schemes; romance scams or detonating IEDs.

 

But it appears we were both wrong.

10 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

God has spoken.

 

 

I find this answer much more plausible.

 

Thank you Bluesofa, oh wise one.

?

They are just creating a black market.  More money for criminals supplying those who do good and bad.  If the carrier wants to do that, then that is fine, but this constant control is silly.  

Click farms have been maybe the main reason for thousands of sim cards/user. Google if you don't know what it is.

12 minutes ago, BigBadGeordie said:

So that is why, I thought it may have been due to to the setting up of "boiler rooms"; gambling call centres; illegal lottery; ponzi schemes; romance scams or detonating IEDs.

 

But it appears we were both wrong.

I find this answer much more plausible.

 

Thank you Bluesofa, oh wise one.

?

My knowledge of a thousand years days comes with a price. pm me for my bank details.

 

in china can buy them online easily. those tourists using groups get them on the plane before arriving to th. this new rule is only to stoo local profiteering and proliferating

Welll it could also be a problem of running out of vailable numbers..

 

Many countries have experienced that.

Put the resources into something better.  Like storm water drain upgrades,  rubbish collections.  Chinese whisper.  Pass it on.

5 hours ago, basatop said:

BigBadGeordie Platinum Member

why? to stop reselling sim cards to unregistered users.Now you will ask: why some people do not like to be registered?

Are you by the way a, like Eddie Murphy said in berverly Hills Cop, psychic from the island of St: Croix? 

By the way, not a bright idea to resell a sim to unregistered users. The sim you sell must already be registered in your name. Don´t try that at home boys and girls. So, when the next boms goes of in the south. You know it wears your name.

By the way 2: I am not going to ask why some people do not like to be registered, either.

Edited July 26, 20187 yr by Get Real

Does anyone remember when you could just pick up a bunch of free sim cards at the airport on arrival?

Edited July 26, 20187 yr by metisdead
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1 hour ago, mlmcleod said:

Does anyone remember when you could just pick up a bunch of free sim cards at the airport on arrival?

You still, only now you'll end up with a bunch of five(s)!

 

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

You still, only now you'll end up with a bunch of five(s)!

 

One is all I ever needed and it is too much.  However you have to have a cell number to do anything in Thailand.

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16 hours ago, BigBadGeordie said:

Why?

 

Anybody?

Some people use mobile phone networks to terminate incoming international voice calls in Thailand.

 

These are called "Grey Routes" and traffic travels over the internet and bypass the licenced international call operators.

 

Using minutes allowances which can be quite generous, there is money to be made..

 

edit: Havn't we all received calls from weird Thai number to find it was from abroad?

Edited July 26, 20187 yr by Satcommlee

3 minutes ago, Satcommlee said:

Some people use mobile phone networks to terminate incoming international voice calls in Thailand.

 

These are called "Grey Routes" and traffic travels over the internet and bypass the licenced international call operators.

 

Using minutes allowances which can be quite generous, there is money to be made..

 

edit: Havn't we all received calls from weird Thai number to find it was from abroad?

Thanks for that, I will sleep better tonight.

12 minutes ago, BigBadGeordie said:

Thanks for that, I will sleep better tonight.

Tell the maid or Thai gf to buy you one if your worried about staying anonymous.... 

 

 

This crap all started when religious terrorists were using them to set off bombs in the south so it's understandable that the govt were under pressure to do something..... 

 

 

Isp will already know who you are anyway as soon as you log into your online banks, shopping,  WiFi  and your imei number probably logged to every previous sim you've ever used etc so there seems little point in not registering your own name unless you are a bit paranoid lol