Transfer to the police to handle people with more than 10 illegal mobile SIMs

SGGP 07/18/2023 07:30

The Department of Telecommunications (Ministry of Information and Communications) said that by mid-July 2023, mobile telecommunications businesses had reviewed and clarified ownership of 100% of organizational customer subscribers.

As a result, the network operators have processed nearly 20% of the total number of documents with multiple SIMs. The Ministry of Information and Communications continues to request mobile telecommunications businesses to resolutely and timely review and clarify customers who own more than 10 SIMs, with the goal of ensuring that the person whose name is registered for the subscription is the person using that subscription number. During the inspection process, if violations such as intentionally forging documents to register subscriber information, taking advantage of and illegally using other people's information to register and activate SIMs causing consequences are detected, depending on the severity of the violation, the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Information and Communications will transfer the file to the police for further handling.

The situation of multiple SIM cards registered under the same customer, not matching the user, has existed for many years. In the past, there were still individuals and organizations that pre-activated, activated multiple SIM cards and sold and circulated them on the market without changing the information according to regulations. This is one of the reasons leading to the situation of junk SIM cards, junk calls, junk messages, and fraud, causing social disorder and affecting the rights of users.