Outlandish Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2016/08/09/plan-track-foreigners-not-just-tourists-sim-cards-moves-forward/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 How will Sim be tracked if phone is off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyRider Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 wow, interesting and a little disturbing...the policy assumes all tourist/foreigner are criminals. I'm sure you will be able to buy regular Thai SIMS at MBK and other places like that for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Some time back the Thais changed the rules and you needed to show some ID to buy a sim card so you could no longer pick up a sim from a 7/11 store. This is the same in many countries for example Australia where you need to some ID with an address or produce a passport if you are a visitor. In January 2016 they were giving out free sim cards at the airport but these were only valid for a short while once you activated them but this was not happening in May 2016. This sounds like an extension of this scheme but with some added registration. The bad news was and maybe still is the rates you get on these so called tourist deals are very poor. To work any mobile phone needs to know what cell you are in and even if you use your home country sim they will know your location down to the cell you are in which on the city can be a very small area. The problem is how do you manage or use all the data you are going to collect. I doubt if even the Thais will have the resources to do this unless you contact a known or suspected person of interest. Very useful for putting together what contacts were made after an incident but you only need to watch the movies to see the bad guys always ditch their cell phones after the deed is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Just use your wifi connections .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_me Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Cell towers have always had an ability to measure a distance to a phone based on response time on the signal. Measure that distance from multiple towers, you get a location. There are issues with its accuracy (signals going through walls, etc.) But it will still get the general area. Not sure what special SIM the will be issuing... They can already do this with any SIM assuming the towers are close enough together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Unless it also has a way to eavesdrop on your conversations as well .. who knows ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B10M3CH88 Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Just grab a lebara in your home country and assign to Thailand. Free sms and a decent data package (enough to for Wechat etc.) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgvinnie07 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Just grab a lebara in your home country and assign to Thailand. Free sms and a decent data package (enough to for Wechat etc.) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Just check their website. No Thailand web site. Can you explain? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolondo Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2016/08/09/plan-track-foreigners-not-just-tourists-sim-cards-moves-forward/ They can track me if they like, hope they like all my boring rants etc. Or they can tune in to my football texts. I'm not bothered if they track me or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uzi3L Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Just get a bg to buy sim for you. Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 yeah I had to show id to buy a sim at the 711 problem was they didn't take any details anyway just looked at it then sold me the sim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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