Recently, China Mobile announced that they are going to do the real-name registration for all newly issued SIM cards. This new policy includes prepaid accounts Shenzhouxing and Donggandidai (or M-zone), and is effective from January 2008. This new policy is enforceable at China Mobile service centers, but the problem is that many prepaid SIM cards are sold by independent dealers such as newspaper kiosks, supermarkets, and mobile phone shops, most of whom cannot be bothered to enforce this new policy.
It remains to be seen how China Mobile can ensure all of its newly issued SIM cards are registered under the user's name unless they cut off their dealer distribution network around China. If they do this, however, China Mobile will have to invest in drastically increasing its direct sales network, something that I'm not sure they are willing to do.
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