It can go several ways, but they're going to ID the buyer one way or another.
We bought a cheap Trac phone for $20, but to connect the service to the phone we had to provide a SSN. We bought another cheap phone and they required a SSN for the purchase.
Don't know what the situation in Pakistan is, but a sim card in the uk costs literal pennies.
Yes but you have to present personal ID to buy a sim so they can assign ownership. Cell phone theft to the moon Alice!
That's pretty funny. Here in the UK you just buy a sim card and be completely unidentifiable.
It can go several ways, but they're going to ID the buyer one way or another.
We bought a cheap Trac phone for $20, but to connect the service to the phone we had to provide a SSN. We bought another cheap phone and they required a SSN for the purchase.
In the Netherlands you can still go to a shop and buy a prepaid SIM card with cash. You can put money on it with vouchers you can also buy with cash.
When I was in the UK a couple of years ago it was the same there (I did it), but that was a few years ago so it could've changed of course.
I've still got the UK SIM, it gives me a much better internet connection even in the Netherlands for some reason.