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Originally Posted by nono1973
The part where it amazed me is that when i lost my phone with a certain Indonesia telco company's sim card,i will be able to retrieve back the same sim card number again. Impressive!  |
Also in my European country. I don't see why to be surprised.
If you can prove to be the owner of the number (registered with ID, usually), why they should not be able to give you back a SIM with the same number?
About contacts and data, if you do regular backup on the cloud, you can retrieve also all that easily.
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Originally Posted by ndnd
All sim card need to be registered. Even XL. Just that they give a two week grace period for new sim card. After that still have to register, else phase 1 of blocking (no sms, no call), then phase 2, full blocking.
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Originally Posted by nono1973
My solution from a shorter stay Batam tourist's perspective is still, step out of custom,walk to the nearest sim card seller, ask for a sim card without registration; test it out,pay and go.
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A sales girl in Lucky Plaza just explained me that
from 1st May all SIM cards from ALL OPERATORS have to be registered before first use. No more grace periods on XL and others. All the same as Simpati.
I suggest to be careful before buying, hoping to "work around" and use it without registering.
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Originally Posted by BFOMF5
For me I think it is simple if you know how to go aroun it
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Also Indonesia knows how to go around and finds the way to fuck "smart" people and make things overly complex
One more example: on my first day I went to GraPARI to register my two cards: one for only calls on GSM, the other for only data on MIFI modem. I reported the whole story here.
Now, the card for Internet data is working ok, but I just discovered that the other card HAS BEEN NOT CORRECTLY REGISTERED, in spite of having done the procedure at an official GraPARI and not in a small street vendor.
I got a message: register now or you will be blocked. I can receive calls and SMS, but I cannot call neither send SMS.
MAddog, please call me again. I cannot call you back or reply SMS.