Spain cuts off 3 million prepaid cards (with €25m credit)

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Originally Posted by petkow

I might have mentioned this before on here, but this stupid government directive has finally kicked in yesterday! It's supposedly aimed at trying to cut down on bombs being triggered by unregistered prepaid mobiles. Of course, there is nothing stopping them using an unregistered foreign SIM that is roaming here though!

You don't need such effort: there could be dealers who register sim cards to shady people using identity cards of common customers...as sometimes happens in Italy, where we have had registered prepaid cars for many years.