I have nothing particularly against needing some form of ID to buy a phone, it would make tracking terrorist activities much easier if they had solid proof of who owns the phone. The problem I have with it is that I don't travel abroad, and therefore I don't have a passport. Passports cost £72. I think you can see where I'm going with this. NOT EVERYONE HAS 72 FUCKING POUNDS TO THROW OUT OF THE WINDOW!!!!!!!! THE GOVERNMENT HAD BETTER PAY FOR A PASSPORT FOR ME IF I'VE GOT TO HAVE ONE TO GET A PHONE!!!!!!!!
"I doubt a terrorist would be worried about registering his phone... this will just affect you english people."
The whole point of it is that they have to. You can't get a phone without registering it. I'd guess they've got some technological method of not allowing unregistered phones to make calls, otherwise it is pretty pointless since it'll just lead to a huge black market in mobile phones.
"I doubt a terrorist would be worried about registering his phone... this will just affect you english people."
The whole point of it is that they have to. You can't get a phone without registering it. I'd guess they've got some technological method of not allowing unregistered phones to make calls, otherwise it is pretty pointless since it'll just lead to a huge black market in mobile phones."
I suspect that other forms of ID (driving liscence etc) will be acceptable. It may even prevent teens from having 9 of the bastard things which as a tutor, I wholly welcome - just not like this.
Wouldn't the "bad guys" just use payphones then? Or they'd just have "illegal" phones, so only the honest people would be registered.
One city, in a misdirected move on the "war on crime" decided to deactivate all pay phones (you know, so drug dealers can't call to make deals - not like they can't walk or drive wherever), but they all had cell phones anyways, so look who paid the price.
Yet another reason i wish england would calm the fuck down (and the uk in general) - every day more useless bullshit like this appears that makes living here so damn hard - and none of it makes any damn sense.
These tossers are getting payed more in a week than i do in a year - to fuck up the country - and make it as hard as possible for me to get out of bed and go to work in the morning -good one guys
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