www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The mobile subscribers of China of may soon be required to register their identity with the carrier. According to the experts, the new regulation will be the latest move to fight against unsolicited advertisements, scams and bank fraud via short messages. State Council or Cabinet are yet approve the related policies. Shanghai has required new prepaid account users to show their identity papers before buying a phone since 2006.

But in the rest of China people can obtain a mobile phone service without providing personal details if they chose prepaid services, making it difficult to catch those involved in phone scams, which are becoming increasingly frequent.