Good idea Papa I'd be interested too, I'm also travelling on 28th February.

Thats a brilliant idea papa I go this sunday 22 Feb anyone interested pm me to

Every time I get an Indian SIM card - I'm asked for photocopies of my passport and visa and a photo.

Thus if another user was to get up to some shady business using that card - it would be traced back to me.

Not a good idea.
p.s. My old one went on the back of the fire.

Why not look through the bins at Manchester airport,theres probably lots in there.

Thus if another user was to get up to some shady business using that card - it would be traced back to me.

I agree. Better safe than sorry... just destroy the sim card rather than giving it to someone you don't really know. As tourists we don't really know the goings on of that 'new fiend'.

ask your taxi driver they usually have spares given to them. bought one first time i went, gave that to my taxi man and have got one off him for my stay ever since then. always has a few rps. left on when i give it back, but nowt on when he gives it to me. andy

Thanks for the input.Think I will just buy one when I get there.

Papa

Please remember, you have to put full identifying personal details on the application form for your sim card.

From petty local crimes, to the terrorist attack on Bombay, cell phone usage was used to track and locate the perpetrators.

If your discarded sim falls into the wrong hands, you could find the security forces tracing it to you.

If you buy a secondhand sim, you have no idea what the previous user was getting up to with it. If it was in an internet-enabled phone, it could have been used to surf for pornography, a serious offence here. If this use is tracked, a pretty easy exercise, do you want to be arrested for it?

This is not far-fetched, this is India.

Last but not least its illegal, the law requires every cell-phone user, including Indians, to provide their details. You are circumventing this, and it is very easy to trace by the network companies (who are losing money from this practice so have an incentive to do so!)
If these sims were expensive you could justify (You maybe, certainly not me) the risk, but they cost a couple of quid.
I think a "reality check" is needed here?
By the way, some networks are planning a reduction in the "need to use" period from 6 to 3 months and have publicised this.

if you look back at old threads this has been done before

Most countries in the world require registation of pay as you go sim cards to try and limit crime and terrorist acts, except who? you guessed Great Britain

if you look back at old threads this has been done before

You could say that about a lot of things that re-appear on all forums! I'm sure that if software was built in to the forums that stopped any repitition they would be pretty empty and dead. Also look at how many people on here today have been members for less than one year.........

Depending on how log ago it was done:
The six month expiry rule came in almost exactly 3 years ago
The proposed three month rule is current news
The Bombay terror attacks and their extensive use of mobiles hadn't happened
The supposed rape of the German minor girl by a Gvt. Ministers son hadn't happened (revolved around cell phone evidence.)
The chopping off of Adv Rodrigues fingers hadnt happened (culprits traced by cell phone tracking)
Etc, etc.

I think in view of that lot, its not too out-of-order to re-visit the subject. Also when Papa launched the thread, he did so with the words,

Saw this great idea on a thread from a few years ago.

so I think we all knew we were re-visiting a subject right from the start.

reading all this would make you think twice .about what you do with you simm card ....re mumbai I was in mumbai the night of the terrorist attack and the phone companys turned off the net work so that the terrorist could not keep in touch with each other I know this for a fact .......colleen

So thats why I couldnt get thru to you on the phone again that night IC was very worried about you as well

Standard practice now in the event of a terrorist attack anywhere.Lots of bombs set off by mobiles as well.

Hard to see a highly trained terrorist being stupid enough not to work out a way to get a sim card without providing I.D. though.

Papa