December 9, 2004
Police want mobile phone cash cards stopped
The untraceability of the current cash cards for subscription-free mobile phones is a boon to professional criminals according to Norwegian police, reports Aftenposten.
"After Norway's special division for economic crime, Økokrom, pointed out the ease with which criminals use unregistered mobile phones cash card users must be registered from Feb. 1, 2005."
Related articles:
-- Swisscom Blocks 130,000 Prepaid Mobile Phone Numbers - Switzerland's incumbent telephone operator, Swisscom, this week blocked some 130,000 prepaid mobile phone numbers because their owners failed to register them by an end-of-October deadline,
-- Switzerland forcing registration of PrePay customers - The Swiss parliament decided last year to make registration mandatory for prepaid cards, after intelligence warnings that members of al-Qaida were using them to make calls without being traced.
-- Prepaid phones to be outlawed in Japan - The government coalition in Japan is preparing a law to outlaw prepaid mobile phones. The reason given is that too many prepaid phones are used for crimes.
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