SIM registration
SIM registration is the legal requirement in many countries to tie every mobile number to a verified identity document before it can be used.
In detail
Where it is compulsory, ranges are harder to obtain and are recycled less aggressively, which usually means better delivery rates and higher prices. Where it is absent, numbers are cheap and abundant, and the services that score ranges have seen all of them before. It is the single best predictor of how a market behaves, which is why it is stated on every country page here.
Also known as
- kyc sim
- sim card registration
Related terms
- SIM farmA SIM farm is a bank of modems holding hundreds of physical SIM cards, used to receive or send SMS on those numbers automatically.
- KYC, know your customerKYC is the process of verifying who an account holder is, using identity documents, before or during a business relationship.
- Number recyclingNumber recycling is the practice of returning a used number to the pool so that a different customer can be issued it later.