NBTC Issues Final SIM Card Verification Warning

BANGKOK (NNT) – The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has issued a final warning to individuals holding between six and 100 SIM cards to confirm their identities at mobile operators’ service centers by July 13. Failure to comply will result in the suspension of the ability to make outgoing calls or send text messages. […]

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Thai man arrested in Bangkok for selling SIM cards illegally

A man is being held in police custody for allegedly selling legally registered mobile phone SIM cards without requiring customer identification documents. SIM card registry a necessity, says Isoc Armed with a search warrant, issued by the Samut Prakan provincial court, officers from the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) searched a house in an estate […]

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Anti-cybercrime team seizes 38 SIM boxes and arrests 2 suspects in Chumphon

Police from Thailand’s Cybercrime Investigation Bureau arrested two men, believed to be members of a call centre scam gang, and seized 38 SIM boxes (SIM-Banks) in raids on 11 apartments in the southern province of Chumphon yesterday (Tuesday). Cybercrime Investigation Bureau Commissioner, Pol Lt-Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha, said that each SIM box can handle 32 SIM […]

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SIM card registry a necessity, says Isoc

The Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) has stressed the importance of registering mobile phone SIM cards against valid identity cards in the insurgency-plagued deep South, saying it is necessary to help ward off coordinated bomb attacks. It was reported that Isoc’s Region 4 Forward Command, which is in charge of security across the deep South, […]

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