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...
Around 4.2 million incoming learners in Kindergarten, Grades 1, 7, and 11 have participated in the Early Registration conducted by the Department of Education (DepEd) for the incoming school year. (Photo from DepEd) Based on the data obtained by the Manila Bulletin, 4,198,932 learners joined the...
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 Department of Education (DepEd) reminded all schools offering basic education of the strict implementation of the cut-off age for incoming Kindergarten pupils this coming School Year (SY) 2023-2024. (Photo from DepEd) “Authorities of public and private schools are instructed to strictly...
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)...
The number of registered Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards in the Philippines has breached 95 million, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) reported on Tuesday, May 9. (NTC / Manila Bulletin File Photo) NTC’s data showed that there are now 95,029,414 registered cards, which is...
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...
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...
