{"id":548633,"date":"2006-04-28T07:13:31","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T07:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548633-now-your-phone-needs-a-licence.html"},"modified":"2006-04-28T07:13:31","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T07:13:31","slug":"now-your-phone-needs-a-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548633-now-your-phone-needs-a-licence.html","title":{"rendered":"NOW YOUR PHONE NEEDS A LICENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Under the recently promulgated Regulation of Interception of Communications &amp; Communication-Related Information Act (Rica), anyone selling or giving away a cellphone or Sim card will have to make and keep a record of the recipient\u2019s name and address, and a photocopy of their ID. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">And, if a cellphone or Sim card is stolen, lost or destroyed, the owner or user will have to report it, and the registration details, to the police. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The measures are part of a security crackdown on the use of cellphones in crime, security officials say. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The new requirements will not have much effect on contracted cellphone subscribers, who must already provide contractual details. But it will force prepaid subscribers, about 88% of the cellular phone market, to identify themselves for the first time. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Service provider Vodacom says it has already developed an electronic registration form to enable prepaid customers to comply more easily with the regulations. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=42307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That cellphone is no longer simply the cute little talk-toy it used to be.  From June 1 all new cellphone owners will have to be registered \u2014 and so will their Sim cards. That goes for purchasers of prepaid Sim cards too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}