Comment by bigiain
6 months ago
> In many countries you need a valid government ID document to activate a mobile service which means burners do not really exist in those places.
Buying prepaid SIMs from tourists or foreign students returning home is a reasonable easy workaround for that - at least if you're the sort of person who meets and befriends those sort of people.
At least where I live tourist SIMs are restricted to 2 weeks, then need to be converted to a local SIM (with ID requirements).
And anyone leaving would have their immigration status expire and the SIM is turned off then unless you provide some other proof of residence.