Due to the limited number under each number segment, in order to improve the utilization rate of the number, the three major domestic operators (mobile, Unicom, Telecom) will regularly recycle the long-term deactivated accounts and issue them to new users again, for old users, this practice has the risk of account leakage, the account bound to the mobile phone number can even be directly logged in with a verification code, and the risk of privacy leakage is quite high. For new users, if the account of the former account owner is not cancelled, it cannot be re-registered, which is extremely inconvenient for the Internet platform that generally relies on mobile phone login.
In response to this problem, China Unicom recently announced that it is now jointly established with the Code Number Service Promotion Group of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology + some Internet enterprises to build a one-stop Internet registration cleaning service channel to easily clean up the registration information of the original number in the cooperative Internet enterprises to ensure that the current number can be registered normally. Users can select the account that needs to be cancelled by entering the "China Unicom" official App, searching for "Registration Cleanup", entering the identity information and clicking to enter. It is reported that at present, the service has supported platforms including Weibo, Douyin, Today's Headlines, Meituan, Dianping, Xiaomi and other platforms, and the official said that the scope of support will be further expanded in the follow-up.
It is worth noting that at present, this service does not support users who carry numbers to the network, and the pilot areas currently online are only Beijing, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and it is not clear when other regions will be opened.
The opening of this service can be said to solve a large part of the user's problem, before that, users may need to find the password or appeal to solve the problem of new mobile phone can not register an account, but at the same time also exposed many users in the mobile phone number when the awareness of canceling the account awareness. Tool-oriented apps like Meituan don't matter yet, and if it's Alipay, which involves major privacy issues, then things may not be that simple.