Mobile phones and China
Not much has changed in China has it?
From Wired: "Anonymity lost:"
China will soon require all mobile phone users to register with telecom providers or face a cutoff in service.
The new rule, announced by the Ministry of Information Industry, is part of a crackdown on telephone fraud and illegal text-messaging practices, and the country's thriving trade in counterfeit and otherwise illegally obtained mobile phones.
It is also expected to help authorities control "improper political commentary."
Many Chinese mobile phone users already are registered with major telecommunications companies such as China Mobile and China Unicom. But a large share use prepaid phone cards and buy the subscriber identity module, or SIM, device that activates the phone without any form of registration. Up to 200 million of China's 377 million mobile phone subscribers use prepaid cards.
Implementation of the new requirement is expected to begin by the end of the year, with customers having to comply within six months or lose their phone services."
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