[wowpow]

I'm told that you have to go to places (?) in Tesco Lotus or the Dot.com Mall and register your mobile serial number with your ID or passport. Non registered pre-pay phones to be cut off on 1st Jan. Something to do with reducing terrorism!

I have not been able to trace any information about this. Does anyone have details please?

[Boxer]

Correct if you believe the press. We have already passed the first deadline for southern residence. Stations are there for registering in most malls and IT places so do it. How the Govt. computers will take 5 million registrations I don't know and then what to do with them???? On Jan 1st do we all go off line and stop pouring cash into PM's companies? I wonder?

[Lester]

I registered mine at an office in Duk Com in October. I filled out a form in longhand that just wanted my name and ID details. Interestingly, the form could not have been read by computer so will rely on the info being hand fed into the system. I am not optimistic.

[jinks]

SIM cards - I wonder if registration will be possible at the time of purchase?

I need to buy a new card on Sunday.

[Boxer]

Yes jon

[macaroni21]

I registered mine at an office in Duk Com in October. I filled out a form in longhand that just wanted my name and ID details. Interestingly, the form could not have been read by computer so will rely on the info being hand fed into the system. I am not optimistic.

Singapore had that system for the last few years and then abandoned it recently. Don't know whether the authorities tried to input the information into a centralised computer, but they soon realised the manually-completed forms were full of errors.

The current system in Singapore is that all SIM card dealers have to use a government approved scanning device to scan the buyer's ID. I think they have character-reading software that can convert the scan to data.

What I hope someone can tell me is whether my roaming phone needs to be re-registered when I arrive in Thailand. I assume not, because the telecom system should be able to detect that mine is not a Thai SIM card, and that in the unlikely event that I have detonated a bomb with my mobile phone, they can trace my phone number back to my home country, where it is registered. Am I right?