Post offices to verify user identity

Category: Government | No Comments | Posted on October 15, 2006

CIOL reports that the Indian Government is looking at asking post offices to validate the identification of the mobile subscriber, which can be used as an authentication system for the telecom service providers.

The post offices may charge about Rs 30 for every identification.

“The Department of Posts has been roped-in along with the Department of Telecommunications, both under the Ministry of IT and Communications, for identification and verification system for the end-users. As the postal department has a got wide-network and the postman or post-woman knows who lives where and for how long, and this itself is a good way of authenticating the veracity of a subscriber,

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