With the public proving it’s in no rush to comply with demands to register millions of sim cards, government regulators are threatening telecom operators to do more.
Only about 7 percent of the estimated 90 million problematic sim cards have been registered since it became possible to do so last month, and yesterday the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission theatened to blacklist providers from auctions for 4G licenses if they don’t do more.
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Looking to strengthen its policing of telecommunications activity, authorities gave users six months to register, after which their service will be terminated if they failed to do so.
Citing his organization’s responsibility to satisfy the demands of the junta-backed cabinet, commission chief Takorn Tanthasith said it was the company’s duty to cooperate by registering their prepaid customers, according to Thai PBS.
Consumers have been told to register by July 31 under threat of losing their phone service on Aug. 1. This new threat directed at service providers comes after only about six million registered during the first six weeks.
It’s unlikely Takorn would be able to make good on such a threat by effectively shutting companies such as AIS, DTAC or True out of the market, but making some threats shows he’s not kidding around.
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