Users of unregistered Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) will have five days after the deadline on July 25 to reactivate their SIM cards based on the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the SIM Registration Act. (Photo credit to Pixabay) As stated in the IRR, "f ailure to register the...
By 12:01 on July 26, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy said that individuals who failed to register their Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) would lose connectivity. *(Pixabay/MB file photo)* Once a SIM gets deactivated, Uy said that a user...
There are 99,289,484 users who have registered their Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards based on the data released by the National Telecommunications Commission  (NTC) on Friday, June 16. (Photo credit to DICT) As of June 23, data from the NTC showed that among public...
The extension of the SIM card registration last April would serve as the “last chance” for scammers to register numbers and come up with new methods, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy said on Tuesday, May 16. Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)...
A SIM card House Speaker Martin Romualdez is asking the country's telecommunications companies (telcos) to reveal the total number of their postpaid mobile phone subscribers as well as the active but unlisted SIMs that they have sold. “Their combined data should give us, the public, an idea of...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (PPAB) House Speaker Martin Romualdez is worried that families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are finding it a challenge to have their subscriber identity module or SIM cards registered. “I suspect that OFW families in the provinces are finding it difficult to...
The Senate public services committee sees the favorable decision of the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) law a big boost as registration continues. Senator Grace Poe, committee chairperson, said the decision affirms the need to have all mobile...
In order to further encourage the public to register their SIM cards, the government is planning to cut them off from various services like calls, texts, and access to social media accounts if they would still fail to do so within the 90-day extension. This, however, is not yet final and is still...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. was compelled to extend the SIM card registration period to 90 more days as he recognized that the remaining unregistered SIM cards are still a significant number. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Yummie Dingding/PPA Pool)...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (Facebook) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte hailed authorities on Tuesday, April 25 for heeding his to call to defer the deadline for SIM card registration under Republic Act (RA) No.11934 or the SIM Registration Act. “We welcome...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has approved the extension of the subscriber identity module (SIM) card registration period after the April 26 deadline. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Yummie Dingding/PPA Pool) Shortly after Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin...
SIM cards Beware of SIM card sellers who are reportedly charging a "registration fee" from consumers rushing to comply with the SIM card registration deadline this Wednesday, April 26. Thus, said House Committee on Appropriations Chairman and Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co on Tuesday, April 25....
