Malaysia to list mobile prepaid users

Malaysia to list mobile prepaid users

MALAYSIA: Mobile phone users in Malaysia with prepaid SIM
cards must register with service providers by the end of the year
in an effort to halt abusive calls and text messages, a news
report said on Sunday.

"We have 16 million prepaid mobile phone users and 14 million
of them are not registered," Communications Minister Lim Keng
Yaik was quoted as saying by the national news agency, Bernama.

On Wednesday, Malaysian police arrested two Indonesian men
following a series of bomb-threat hoaxes spread by text message
on the northern resort island of Penang.

The move by Malaysia's government follows similar measures by
countries like Thailand, the Philippines and Taiwan. Thailand
imposed registration after mobile phones were used as triggers
for bombs in the country's volatile south. -- AP