[Spktyr]

All the major cell providers ask for a SSN these days.

[be-baw]

Yeah, after a Verizon customer I know told me he needed to cough up his SSN in order to his kids cell phones, I wondered if they all require it now.

Oh well, I guess I won't have to worry about getting cancer from cell phones for a while...

[steve-b]

All the major cell providers ask for a SSN these days.

Yep. It's part of the security-theater nonsense vomited up by the previous administration, not the company's idea.

[Neidermeyer]

All the major cell providers ask for a SSN these days.
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The pay-as-you-go phones don’t. You can still walk into any cell phone store and pay for the phone rather than roll it’s cost into a contract (or provide your own) and get service (sometimes with a small deposit) without supplying a ssn .. 25% of the population where I am are illegal and they don’t go without cell service. You always have the option of not providing a ssn and then paying the “bad credit” deposit.

[RoadGumby]

Just one more reason not to have one.