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...
(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...
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,...
(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...
A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted one month prior to the original deadline for compliance with the SIM Registration Act, also known as Republic Act No. 11934, revealed that 56 percent of adult Filipino SIM card owners had registered their cards, while 44 percent had not. According to...
