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Half a year ago in Shenzhen I did manage to buy a prepaid SIM card from a street vendor without showing any kind of identification whatsoever. I've heard about that law, and I know my friends had to show their passports to get SIM cards, but apparently the law isn't obeyed that much. Mind you - it wasn't some shady vendor, it was a random electronics store on a commercial street.


They threaten to shutdown your SIM eventually if they don't have an ID#/passport associated with it. But they are very bad about follow through.


I see. Well, it only had to last a month :).


You'd have to go multiple years for there to be any risk of shutdown at all. I've never even received a threat.


Speak of the devil:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/984988.shtml

It is like they come up every year and say: "we are really going to do this now."




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