India's Union government mandates SIM card verification and six-hour session timeouts for messaging apps to combat cyber fraud. Platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram must ensure continuous SIM linkage, ...

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The cut corner on a SIM card serves a crucial practical purpose: ensuring correct orientation and preventing damage to the chip and device. This thoughtful design, originating from early SIM cards, ...

Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations discovered an additional 200,000 SIM cards at a location in New Jersey, law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News. This follows last week's ...

The US Secret Service announced this morning that it has located and seized a cache of telecom devices large enough to “shut down the cellular network in New York City.” And it believes a nation-state ...

With smartphones, where Apple leads others often follow - so it launching an iPhone this week without a traditional Sim card is raising questions over the future of a very familiar piece of phone tech ...

Vitel Wireless, Nigeria’s first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) has entered into partnership with Slot Systems Limited for distribution of its SIM cards and other gadgets around the country.

The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max have recently been rumored to drop the physical SIM card slot altogether on a global scale, but today a new rumor comes to contradict this assertion. A tipster over on X ...

Twenty-one men and 10 women, aged between 16 and 48, were arrested for allegedly providing fraudulently registered postpaid SIM cards for money, said the police on Monday (July 28). Another nine men ...

People who have pay-as-you-go SIM cards in their mobile phones are to be required to identify themselves, the communications commissioner’s office announced on Thursday. The new rule applies to both ...

AT&T has launched a new security feature called "Wireless Lock" that protects customers from SIM swapping attacks by preventing changes to their account information and the porting of phone numbers ...

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has launched an online portal to provide doorstep delivery of SIM cards. This new service will allow users to order SIM cards and have them delivered directly to ...