Control of Mobile Phone SIM card

Government has enforced that any person cannot own more than 10 mobile phone SIM cards. It sounds like a good idea, but how can they ensure that any person will not own more than 10 SIM cards? How about those who previously owned SIM cards (on paper) that they no longer used? How far will the dealer go to ensure that a customer do not own more than 10 SIM cards at the same time?

It may look easy to control such thing, but if it would be easy to handle, ministry would have done it long time ago and steps must be taken to ensure all these. What if a person who previously own a SIM card, but changed to another and the original no longer in use? What if a SIM card is lost? Do the consumer need to report this to police station so they would be able to delete their name off the ownership list?

If only a prepaid card, do you think telco company will spend so much time and effort, and moreover money to implement such irrelevant things? The reason why telco company comes out with Prepaid card is because they want to save the trouble of billing, chasing payment, registration etc. If government insist on such rule to prepaid service, I think very soon we will not have any prepaid service anymore since it's more troublesome than a postpaid service.

If government wanted to punished certain group of misused users, and sacrifice all users' convenient, then the move is totallywrong and it's a definite backward way of doing things. That sound more like the government policy as they tends to go backward rather than forward!