Talk:Peru/@comment-24682153-20160406104110/@comment-26674008-20160410075012

I find this whole thing very confusing. The pages of the providers say nothing of this. For example: http://tolpre.movistar.com.pe/movil/prepago/requisitos says "Acércate al local de tu preferencia con tu DNI, brevete, pasaporte, CIP o CE." for movistar dealers.

Or, for claro their rules for activation: http://www.claro.com.pe/portal/recursos/ec/pdf/Codificacion_Norma_Empadronamiento.pdf which state: "las personas extranjeras que no posean cédula de identidad, deberán empadronarse únicamente de manera presencial en los Centros de Atención al Usuario o Puntos de Empadronamiento del concesionario."

Unless these instructions are horrible out of date, they clearly state that foreigners without local DNI must activate their cards at "places of registration" that I understand to be official stores who have to verify all information in-store before activating.

Now I guess that this procedure is probably time-consuming, done without DNI. It seems likely (as in many countries) that underpaid employees at some counter just don't care to do it. But that's different than some broad rule. Is there some other reference, besides a forum post and vague news article (that doesn't even mention foreigners) that DNI and fingerprint is required now? It seems the crackdown is toward SIM cards activated without any ID verified at all or activated by stolen DNI.