Sim Card Registered: Whew!?!
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (140102)
Philippines
January 19, 2023 9:30am CST
In my country Philippines, we are obliged to register our sim cards. I got the link where to register and did not have a second thought. According to news article that I read, the deadline will be on April. If we failed to do this, our sim cards will be deactivated.
Do sim cards in your country need to be registered?
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@DaddyEvil (137464)
• United States
19 Jan 23
Yeah, I know. @DevMrSamEleazar was fussing about registering his SIM one day last week.
No, it only has to be activated by paying for it. Once the cash register receives the money to pay for the SIM, then we can put it into the phone and use it. (Paying cash means nobody knows who owns the SIM... 
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Phones with unregistered SIMs here are called "burner" phones and there's no way to trace them.
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Phones with unregistered SIMs here are called "burner" phones and there's no way to trace them.3 people like this
@jobelbojel (36020)
• Philippines
20 Jan 23
I think when I was with T-Mobile, we asked our customers to register their SIM cards. We keep their names on our database.
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@jobelbojel (36020)
• Philippines
20 Jan 23
@DaddyEvil I worked in the prepaid department, when people activated their T-Mobile SIM, they will call us to ask help. We took the chance to ask them for their information but not forced you are right. They can use pen names.
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@DaddyEvil (137464)
• United States
20 Jan 23
@jobelbojel The customer can be asked to register their SIM card here but can't be forced. Only the people on a contract are registered.
Of course, I've had my SIM for a lot of years so, even though it's not registered to me, all someone has to do is look online and my name is linked to my phone number which is linked to my SIM. *shrug*
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@jobelbojel (36020)
• Philippines
20 Jan 23
Got mine registered last week. Do you remember you reference number?
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@mariefe18 (663)
• Philippines
5 Feb 23
We are both from the Philippines and I own both a prepaid and post paid sim cards, for the post paid account there's no need to register because it is done already by the network. For my prepaid account during the first few months I wasn't able to register since it cannot handle the influx but after 2 months it was easy breezy to do it.
