subject: The Real Identification Must Be Provided For Purchasing Prepaid Card [print this page] The mobile phone real name registration system in China will get started. On August, 30, according to Sinhua News agency, the real-name registration system has settled. From tomorrow, the users who buy the prepaid phone card must offer the ID card. We know China has a large market of wholesale moible phones and has a large number of mobile users.
It's said that the users make use of the mobile service in the prepaid or postpaid modes. In the postpaid mode, the user will sign the service contract with the mobile operators. In order to ensure the payment, the operators would require the real name registration information to contact the users and send the bills.
The prepaid service means the users can use the communication service after prepaid the money. The operators have no worry about the arrearage. What's more, in order to convenient the users, the prepaid card business is done in mode of non-real name in some countries. At present, the prepaid card users make up a large percentage of the mobile users. But in some countries with heated mobile competition like Japan and Korea, most of the users are postpaid users.
The mobile communication service only has a history about 20 years. But it gains rapid development for its convenience. By July, 2010, the number of mobile subscribers had topped 5 billion.
In current five years, with the widespreading of the mobile phone, the deep development of the message application and pupularizing of the mobile network service, there are increasing illegal activities caused by mobile phone. The prepaid card without real name registration becomes the main tool of the criminals. It makes many countries to take measures and the real name registration is also applied to the prepaid users.
The new regulations are published successively in Australia, Switzerland, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, England, Spain and Tanzania. The real name registration is regarded as one of the effective way to control crime.
According to the experience gained in other countries, there are mainly the following features of the promotion of real name registration.
The corresponding law and regulations will be unveiled before the implementation of the new policy. And the work will be promoted in this way.
The safety of the users' information should be attached great importance. The information protection should be the priority of the real name registration. Most of the countries have the exact protection terms and regulations. For example, the real name registration in UK should be processed according to the Data Protection Law.
The promoting of the real name registration is a long term work. We should persevere in the work as we start it. Otherwise the previous work will be wasted.
In fact, it's easy to find that the phone real name registration has become an important method to control the criminal. And it's applied by more and more countries.
In current year, with the activeness of the criminals and terrorist activities caused by mobile phone, some countries begin to make the phone real name system the important method to fight crime and protect national security.
