There is no extension of the July 25 SIM registration deadline, but those who still failed to register are given a final five-day grace period or until July 30 to reactivate their SIMs as stipulated in the implementing rules and regulations of the SIM Registration Law, according to...
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said there will no longer be any further extension in the deadline to register active SIMs. It may be recalled that the government extended the original deadline of 26 April 2023 by another 90 days, as allowed under the SIM Registration Act,...
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...
The Senate will monitor if the automatic deactivation of non-registered Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) could help address and contribute to reducing, if not eliminating, text scams and other cyber-related crimes, Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva on Wednesday, July 12, said....
(Unsplash) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is calling on local government unit (LGU) officials all over the country to exert extra effort in ensuring that the owners of the remaining 10 million or so unregistered SIM cards would beat the registration deadline. “LGU executives to...
Senator Grace Poe  on Friday, June 23, said the government and telecommunication companies (telcos) must go all out to sign up Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) users as the July 25, 2023 registration deadline nears. The registration of SIM would significantly help free the public from the...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. warned the public against the scams associated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his speech during the 85th anniversary celebration of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Makati City on...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Thursday, June 22, said that the country’s “best defense” against online scammers are “knowledgeable consumers” who are able to determine scam methods. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (Photo from the Presidential Communications Office) In a...
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 latest Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card registration tally has breached 96 million. SIM cards (Pixabay) Based on the latest SIM registration update released by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), the total number of registered cards is at 96,910,251. This is equivalent to at...
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)...
