>2.5 years ago: I needed to provide both my renting agreement and my full employment contract to get a T-Mobile $80/m subscription for two, in the mid of Silicon Valley. The US is definitely making it harder than is should be :)

Thats horrible! You could go buy a pre paid phone with out having all of the overhead from T-Mobile.

The difference is that it was probably a T-Mobile policy, not a law or mandate by the government (like in Costa Rica).

>the US see them as numbers.

Exactly. I wish we were like Singapore but its much easier for a smaller Country. They see a person as an investvent in the future, the US sees you as a number and wants your taxes.