Takorn Tantasith noted that the owners of more than three million SIM cards had still not given their service provider their details or a copy of their ID cards or passports. He noted that these people could still go to their provider before the end of this month to restore full service.
The NBTC originally gave SIM card owners six months to register with their providers. This ran out at the end of July. Since then unregistered numbers have only been able to accept incoming calls and make calls to emergency services.
Director Tantasith says the NBTC has instructed the mobile network providers to give customers 30 days warning that they will be cut off. He said the companies had to do this before 1 September as it was a legal requirement that customers got 30 days notice of any suspension of their service.
September 30 deadline for Thai SIM card registration
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Thailand’s telecommunications division has warned mobile telephone users they have until 30 September 2015 to ensure their SIM cards are registered. The head of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) says that any SIM cards still not logged on the national database by then will have their service cut forthwith.