Senator Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday, September 15 urged the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to focus on enhancing the process and implementing stricter mechanisms for SIM registration rather than temporarily discontinuing it. “Hindi itigil muna—higpitan nila (Don’t stop...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Deputy Majority Leader and ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo believes that the national identification (ID) card system--once properly implemented--can help stop the falsification of...
Sen. Grace Poe called on concerned agencies and telecommunications companies (telcos) to require "selfies" in the SIM registration process as a means to deter instances of fraud and scamming. Poe said that selfies, or one's photograph taken by oneself, should be part of the implementing rules...
Law enforcement authorities should impose stiffer penalties against individuals who would be caught selling registered subscriber identity modules (SIMs) that are eventually used in various cybercrime activities. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian made the call following the revelation of...
Complaints about text scams declined and then sharply increased right after the deadline of the SIM registration ended, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said on Tuesday, September 5. NTC Commissioner Ella Blanca Lopez disclosed this phenomenon during the Senate Committee on...
(Unsplash) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is pushing for a companion law to Republic Act (RA) No.11934--also known as the SIM Registration Act--that would protect subscribers from a bunch of other headaches. If RA No.11934 is meant to...
Senator Grace Poe has called on the Senate to investigate why text scams continued to proliferate even after the enactment into law of the SIM Registration Act. Sen. Grace Poe (Senate PRIB Photo) Poe said the Upper Chamber should also look into its possible link into the reported use...
Senator Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Friday, August 4 said his son fell victim to scammers even after the government strengthened the fight against text scams by mandating the registration of all Subscriber Identity Modules (SIM) cards through the SIM Registration Act. Because of...
A survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) in the second quarter of 2023 bared that 70 percent of Filipinos closely followed the news about SIM registration, making it the most followed story among a list of 14 news events. This compares to 68 percent in the first quarter of 2023,...
(Unsplash) Don't look now, but the seven-month registration window for subscriber identity module or SIM cards is finally over. As such, Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is prodding law enforcement agencies to crack down harder on violators of the SIM Registration Act as well as the...
Senator Grace Poe, chairperson of the Senate public services committee, on Wednesday, July 26,  said authorities can now train their sights on running after scammers who continue to defraud the public using the subscriber identity module (SIM) of mobile phones.      ...
Anti-cyber crime experts of the Philippine National Police (PNP) warned netizens of expected escalation of hacking incidents in the social media with the full implementation of the SIM registration law. Police Brig. Gen. Sidney Hernia, director of the PNP-Anti-Cybercrime Group (ACG), said they...
