SIM cards have been an integral yet often forgotten part of owning a smartphone for the past few decades. For most users, the SIM card defines the basic commercial relationship they have with their ...

SINGAPORE: When Christinah Heng answered a call in October from a local number she did not recognise, alarm bells did not ring. The interior design boss, 53, will pick up local calls because of her ...

SIM cards, the small slips of plastic that have held your mobile subscriber information since time immemorial, are on the verge of extinction. In an effort to save space for other components, device ...

Ahead of the national election, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to tighten restrictions on the number of SIM cards an individual can register, aiming to curb ...

A massive international grey market in mobile phone SIM cards is fuelling large-scale manipulation and fraud online, a University of Cambridge study has found. The researchers say physical and virtual ...

Home Office accused of putting criminality before dignity with rule seeking intelligence on people-smugglers Children who arrive in the UK on small boats could be searched to check if they are ...

India's Union government mandates SIM card verification and six-hour session timeouts for messaging apps to combat cyber fraud. Platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram must ensure continuous SIM linkage, ...

Ahmedabad: The Cybercrime police on Monday arrested three men for issuing sim cards in the names of unsuspecting customers and routing them to cyberfraud operators in Dubai and Cambodia. The FIR was ...

The Department of Telecom (DoT) has issued an advisory, cautioning citizens against using mobile devices with tampered IMEI numbers , and warned that mobile subscribers may be held liable if a SIM ...

The probe reveals she obtained a SIM card in 2023 using the fake address of a mosque while living at an Al-Falah University hostel, and that she intentionally avoided using her family's addresses in ...

Since November 10, Russia has been running an experiment it calls SIM card “cooling” — temporarily cutting off mobile Internet access for cards that have either connected to foreign networks while ...