It lives!!!!!

Yes indeed.
I was considering sending my Sims to Mick Keelty as a gift to "get
them off the street and make us all safer". Mick wanted a 100 point
identity check (cheque, Czech?) for SIM cards to get us all safe. He
didn't seem to be aware that there are 23,000 mobile phones, complete
with SIM cards, lost every week in OZ.
You really gotta laugh.

Theo

 

Hasn't there _always_ been a 100 point identity check to register a SIM
card in Australia?

Nev..
'07 XB12X

 

Or drug use. I'm forever astounded at the ability of high profile
media/sports/etc personalities in Australia (and around the world) to
use "I was taking illegal drugs and I'm putting myself in rehab" as
their excuse for behaviour and yet none of these people seem to ever get
charged with drug possession/use.

Nev..
'07 XB12X

 

Nev.. is of the opinion:

When I got a pre-paid account back around 2002, all I had to do was call up
a number and give my name and whatnot -- and there was no verification or
anything as far as I can tell. It always struck me as a little... thin.

Obviously, if you're getting a post-paid account it's a bit different, since
there's credit checks and whatnot to be done, but they just want enough info
to make sure that you're at least marginally capable of paying what they're
asking, it's not a 100 point check.

- Matt

 

Thank god you're here... saved me the trouble of posting what I
thought!


GB

 

"I'll give you a thousand bucks, cash, for that phone of yours if
you don't report it lost for a week".


GB, laughable indeed.

 

Insert the joke about the bloke who gets arrested by american military
police for inadvertantly flying his light aeroplane into Area 51. They
hold him for 48 hours, interrogate the crap out of him, eventually send
him on his way with strict instructions not to return and not to tell
anyone where he's been. He returns within 24 hours, this time with his
wife on board. "OK, you bastards explain it to her, she won't believe
me!"


GB

 

No only bank accounts and other financial products

JL

 

That's a legal requirement for them, but it doesn't mean other
industries don't require similar amounts of ID.

When I got a prepaid phone back around 1999/2000 I had to produce -the
equivalent of- 100 points of ID at the Telstra shop.

Nev..
'07 XB12X

 

Ok so my use of the term '100 point check' was taken too literally. A
photo drivers licence, a credit card and/or a utility bill with your
name and address on it is 'a 100 point check' in whatever terminology
you wish to use.

Nev..
'07 XB12X

 

Oh no, he's quite right. If I didn't have a wife to help me look I'd
*never* be able to find my penis!


BTH

 

I as well!


BTH

 

It's still that way in Fiji. I went to the phone shop and asked for a
SIM, then was somewhat startled when all they wanted was $20 and no
ID.

It doesn't work in my phone back here, though.


BTH

 

If you're opening a new account with a phone service provider they
will certainly want you to prove that the bill will not go to nowhere.
Nothing to do with a SIM card though. They just want you to prove that
you are giving them a real address and that iit is yours.

I have about 25-30 mobile phones all registered to me (as the account
holder). I hand them out to whom I see fit. When I want some more SIM
cards I call my mobile provider and say "I've got no SIM cards", a
half dozen arrive in the mail next day. When I want to activate one I
email the SIM card number, and the phone number I want it attached to,
to my provider and it is working in half an hour. I have a stack of
old SIMs in desk.

Last month one of our guys had a phone stolen from his car (Duhh!), I
had a spare handset and it took all of five minutes to cancel the old
SIM card, block the old handset, activate the new SIm with the old
phone number and send him on his way. Did all that without getting out
of my chair.

Theo

 

You referring to Malcolm Turnbull's "confession" yesterday?

Theo

 

That's great service - can't possibly be Telstra, surely ?

JL

 

Don't know about that, I'm sure you'd manage. It's just that it's much
more fun with the domestic assistance ...

Cheers
Goaty
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Yup Telstra. It's not difficult to deal with Telstra and be treated
reasonably. I get an assigned Telstra rep, and an assigned mobilenet
rep, both of who regularly contact me, and I ahve their emails and
direct phone numbers. We're on a corporate plus plan where all calls
between the office and the 25 odd phones are free both ways as well as
all calls between those mobiles. All you have to do is spend $2500 a
month, and have more than 20 mobiles. OK, that last bit may not be for
everyone.

Theo

 

No. Ben Cousins comes immediately to mind, but there have been others.

Nev..
'07 XB12X

 

......... All you have to do is spend $2500 a
month, and have more than 20 mobiles. OK, that last bit may not be for
everyone.

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