Today is the last day to register your SIM card
People who use a SIM card with prepaid calling credit ('pre-paid') must register their SIM card(s) before 1 August; this does not apply to those who have a subscription, because their data is already registered.
For some time now there has been a legal obligation to register Thai SIM cards that are used in a mobile, tablet, and the like. The telecom providers have been instructed by the National Commission for Radio and Telecommunications (NBTC) to block all SIM cards that have not been registered before August 1, 2015. Without registration you can no longer call or surf the internet. You can still receive calls. In good Dutch: 'Big brother is watching you!'
Users can register their SIM cards until today (Friday 31 July 2015). Foreigners must show their passport or Thai driver's license to the telecom provider (Thai citizens: their ID card), and must also bring the mobile or tablet with the relevant SIM card. Registration only takes a few minutes and is free. After registration you will receive a confirmation by SMS. Branches of telecom providers AIS (also Telewiz), DTAC, or True can be found in all larger shops.
Don't forget it otherwise your phone number will expire.
Source: N/A Pattaya
Dear readers,
From our last stay in Thailand (Feb. to April), we both still have a SIM card (Happy tourist from DETEC) each with about 500 Baht credit on it. We are now in the Netherlands and will not return to Thailand until October. Has that call credit now disappeared due to the mandatory registration?
Regards,
Fon
Please contact http://www.dtac.co.th/en/help/form.html
Apparently you can also have your SIM card registered with DTAC with a kind of video calling. http://www.dtac.co.th/en/prepaid/service/sim-registration.html
Hi Fond,
Since we got 13 mobile numbers from a friend about 15-2 years ago, we had to do this too.
Yes, you have lost your call credit.
We went back to a True shop 3 times, because both of our phone credit had disappeared.
The ladies there in the store didn't know what they were doing.
The second time a lady came from the desk behind the counter because she recognized my voice and the MANAGER-ON-DUTY also didn't know what she was doing and this lady explained it.
And we morons assumed that a manager knows what she was doing and after it was explained to her again, we both took our mobiles without checking.
We had to put some money on it, because the existing credit had disappeared for a while, but we got it back after 2 weeks..
Every tb-er can understand our total bewilderment when we saw our previous credit after 2-3 days.
We received 2 new sim cards with our own numbers.
When we got home we found out that there was not a tel.nr. for the new SIM card.
So I had a heated conversation with upstairs.
fortunately, when our PC wizard came for a new hard disk and solved this problem.
But ignorance reigns supreme in the shops.
LOUISE
I think it is unlikely that your telephone number will expire, because you can still be called. Just assume that there are millions of unregistered prepaid cards. I think you can still register after today. At NVT Pattaya I do not read that your telephone number expires.
If it has no consequences, then nobody registers their phone or am I seeing that wrong?
What do you do with a phone you can't make calls with? Also internet (data traffic) no longer works.
As of August 1, the phone cards in Thailand that are not registered will be blocked, but after that you can still register your number, I understood from the following newspaper article:http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/telecom/639892/cut-off-arrives-july-31-for-prepaid-mobile-stragglers
But for how long this article does not say.
Thank you very much for your responses to my question. I think we'll just try to get the SIM card registered in October. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Thanks again!
Regards,
Fon
You still have some time.
It is now possible until the end of August and then who knows ……
http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/nbtc-to-extend-registration-of-prepaid-sim-cards-till-august-31