Talk:Austria/@comment-27968765-20190102002525/@comment-24682153-20190102032506

Camera and mic is necessary for the online registration, not registration at the point of purchase. For an online registration you do a short video chat showing your passport and face. The agent has to verifiy your data. It's not sufficient that you fill out an online firm, because they need to be sure that it's you on the given ID document.

Austria will use both ways: online and at sales points. We still don't know if all sale points will be able to register. For instance HOT is only sold at Hofer discounter stores and they are not happy registering passports at the check-out counter. The problem with online registration is that not all passports of all countries are accepted.

So until they system is running for some weeks, expect some delays. Austria also need to register some million existing prepaid SIM cards by September 2019.