Do I need an ID card to buy a mobile phone?

You don't need an ID card to go to the business hall or buy a mobile phone online. You can buy a mobile phone by paying normally. But mobile phones need to use mobile phone cards to make calls and surf the Internet. Mobile phone cards need to be purchased separately. After the implementation of "Mobile real-name registration system", the mobile phone card must be registered with the ID card, otherwise it will be impossible to enter the home.

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Telephone real-name registration system

Telephone real-name registration system means that users should provide real identity information and register their mobile phone numbers with their own names, products and brands. When handling fixed telephone, mobile phone, broadband service, wireless network card access and transfer services.

From September 1 2003, China implemented the registration of real identity information for new fixed and mobile phone users (including wireless network cards) nationwide, and strictly implemented "registration first, service later; No registration, no service. "

At the same time, telecom enterprises will inform old users who have not registered their real names by telephone, short message, written letter, announcement, etc., and take convenient measures to make up the registration for free, so as to gradually increase the registration ratio of real identity information of telephone users in China.

Real-name registration of mobile phone users is an international practice. First of all, short messages are becoming an excellent information dissemination medium and a cheap advertising channel, but at the same time, harmful short messages on mobile phones are increasingly rampant. Most mobile phone crimes use prepaid mobile phones without real names.

Short message service complaint is the most common service in telecom service complaint. The main contents of complaints are spam messages and irregular operation of service providers. The implementation of the real-name registration system of mobile phones aims to curb illegal short messages, fraudulent short messages, pornographic short messages and other junk short messages through mobile phone short messages, standardize business and reduce illegal acts.

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