Registration Policies Per Country

Prepaid SIM cards used to be fairly straightforward to acquire in a lot of countries. Buyers needed simply to walk up to any place that sells this from convenience stores to vending machines to branded mobile phone stops. However due to security reasons, an increasing number of countries have required some form of registration from mobile phone users. In most countries, registration itself do not prohibit the direct sale of prepaid SIM cards to visitors but they may still be cumbersome. This page shows a summary of countries that require registration, and if so where visitors should go to register their SIM cards, and what they need to bring. Although some countries do not require registration but individual telcos do, this page focuses more on countries where compulsory SIM card registration is enshrined in national law or government regulations.

Africa
Write the first section of your page here.

Americas
Write the second section of your page here.