Oh holy shit this makes so much sense… I’m also Australian and I’ve always wondered how a prepaid sim would help drug dealers in TV shows and movies and such because I just never thought that requiring ID to activate any sim card might not be a thing elsewhere
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Delphia@lemmy.world 8 months agoIn Australia when you register a simcard you have to provide a drivers licence. As I understand it in the US you can just buy a simcard thats valid for X days or X call value whichever comes first. No ID required.
Baku@aussie.zone 8 months ago
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Wait, you don’t have prepaid SIMs? That’s wild.
Delphia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah but they still require some form of ID to register the sim before it can be used.
Its hardly a foolproof system because you just need to key in a drivers licence number, but theres a name or company associated to every number.