Two individuals were arrested by members of the District Special Operations Unit (DSOU) of the Makati City Police for selling registered SIM cards in Barangay Poblacion, Makati City Sunday, April 2. The police identified the suspects as Jinxing Zhao, 29; and Cristobal Cacayurin Jr., 56. According to...
The number of registered SIM cards in the Philippines has breached 52 million, said the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), 30 days before the mandatory measure ends. Based on the latest tally issued by the DICT, there are now 52,380,146 registrants nationwide. “The...
Citing the latest statistics released by the country's major Public Telecommunication Entities (PTEs), the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said that there are over 49 million subscribers who have completed their SIM registration. As of March 21, DICT noted that a total...
As the deadline for the SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) registration nears, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) in Region 4-A will start making the rounds of areas in Rizal Province this week to help residents with their registration. From March 22 up to March 24, the NTC will...
Senator Grace Poe, on Sunday, March 19 called on authorities to clamp down on mobile phone scammers without providing any letup on the ongoing Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) registration. Poe, principal author of the SIM Registration Act, said scam messages through text still appear in...
The spread of text scams will be drastically reduced once the SIM Registration law is “fully implemented,” said Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary Anna Mae Lamentillo on Friday, March 17. In a “Laging Handa” public briefing, Lamentillo said the...
As of 7 March 2023 (11:59 PM), the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) reports a total of 41,471,503 subscribers registered in the system, which is 24.54% of the 168,977,773 million subscribers nationwide. The total number is consolidated from data reported by local...
Mobile leader Globe is setting up booths in 54 locations nationwide from March 7 to March 10 in support of the seventh round of the SIM registration assistance initiative of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). Customers who have not yet registered their SIMs may visit the location...
On the strength of 307 "yes" votes, the House of Representatives easily passed on third and final reading on Monday afternoon, March 6 a measure seeking to institutionalize the online voter registration. (Unsplash) The proposal, embodied in House Bill (HB) No.7241, also sought to strengthen the...
The tally of registered Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards has breached 35 million, but this number is relatively small compared to the sum total of unregistered SIMs which currently is at 133,643,043. SIM card (Unsplash) The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), on its latest tally, ...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) on Monday, Feb. 20 stressed the importance of reinforcing campaign strategies to remind and engage the public to comply with the mandatory SIM registration. SIM cards (Pixabay) DICT admitted that it has observed a “slowdown” in...
Over 500 Assistance Desks rolling out nationwide, GlobeOne app now open for prepaid SIM registration Globe, on Monday launched the first ever National SIM Registration Week (NSRW), rolling out assistance desks in over 500 locations across the country from February 20, 2023 onwards to make it easier...
