India’s Department of Telecommunications has notified rules requiring biometric identification before a person can obtain, change or disconnect a mobile connection, with operators given three months to build the systems […]

South Korea is moving ahead with a plan to let mobile carriers verify new subscribers with facial recognition, part of a wider government effort to stamp out the fraudulently opened […]

Mexico’s looming deadline to tie every mobile number to a verified person is pushing selfie-based identity verification into the daily experience of millions of phone users, even as regulators signal […]

Veridas says its identity platform is being used by Mexican mobile operators to comply with new Guidelines for the Identification of Mobile Telephone Lines, which require each mobile line to […]

SLC Digital, a U.S.-based firm specializing in SIM-based identity, has announced the integration of the GSMA’s Device Check service into its eSIM identity platform. This move significantly strengthens device-based security […]

A major East African telecom is preparing to implement biometric registration for customers who want to swap SIM cards into new devices. Announcing the plans to media, Safaricom CEO Bob […]