Report: Tele2 installs 1st SIM card vending machine with biometry

MOSCOW, Jun 9 (PRIME) -- Mobile operator T2 RTK Holding, working as Tele2, has installed Russia’s first fully automatic SIM card vending machine in the arrivals area of Moscow’s airport Vnukovo, business daily Vedomosti reported on Saturday quoting the operator’s spokeswoman Olga Galushina.

To buy a SIM card in the machine, a buyer should scan their passport in a special slot of the terminal, get photographed and sign with a finger on a screen.

The system will not approve any invalid passport or any mismatch of the passport’s owner with the buyer’s identity, Galushina said.

Tele2 as well as other operators tried earlier to install SIM card vending machines, but without biometry, clients’ identity was checked by a human being, she said.

The operator installed the SIM card vending machine on the eve of the FIFA World Cup the country will host on June 14–July 15.

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