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by knowaveragejoe 61 days ago
You can buy a phone on amazon right now and not sign for anything.
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Does it have a carrier service when it arrives? That is the part that matters. They don't care whether you have a piece of hardware that just sits idle. They don't want people placing phone calls that can't be traced back to an identity that can be physically located and arrested.
To use mobile data, yes you'd have to prove some kind of identity in one way or another.