A SIM card Senator Grace Poe on Sunday, April 23, urged the public to give the SIM Registration Law one final push as the April 26 deadline to register approaches. ‘’Let’s spread the word that all must enlist their SIM for their protection and peace of mind,’’ she stressed. Poe,...
There are now over 80 million Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards registered across the country, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) disclosed on Sunday, April 23. SIM cards (Pixabay) NTC on Sunday said 80,372,656 individuals have so far registered their SIMs as of April 22, but this...
A SIM card A ranking congressman is making a last-ditch effort to convince the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to extend the deadline for SIM card registration as provided for under Republic Act (RA) No.11934, or the SIM Registration Act. “This is an 11th-hour...
Following the alleged personal data leak involving law enforcement agencies in the Philippines, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) once again assured the public that all information and data gathered during the mandatory Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card registration will be...
Update: [20% of mobile phone users may lose digital payments access](https://mb.com.ph/2023/4/25/20-of-mobile-phone-users-may-lose-digital-payments-access) The SIM registration, which officially began on December 27, 2022, is set to end on April 26, 2023. All existing SIMs will be deactivated after...
House Deputy Minority Leader and Bagong Henerasyon (BH) Party-list Rep. Bernadette Herrera ( Rep. Herrera's office) A high-ranking congresswoman is asking telecommunications companies (telcos) to cancel all holidays and leaves of their customer service personnel for the next few days. According to...
The mandatory Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) registration will still end on April 26, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said on Wednesday morning, April 19. In a statement, the DICT acknowledged the appeals of public telecommunication entities (PTEs) to extend the...
Less than a week left before the April 26 deadline, and Globe is making it even more enticing to register their SIMs. With the 2x Rewards Campaign, Prepaid subscribers with P90 and above promo/load transactions and TM customers with P50 and above transactions will get twice the rewards when they...
Davao Oriental 2nd district Rep. Cheeno Almario (Facebook) A vice chairman of the House Committee on Information and Communications Technology has joined the calls for the extension of the SIM card registration period in light of the low registry turnout. Davao Oriental 2nd district Rep. Cheeno...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) bared that the latest SIM Registration tally has breached 69 million, but this is only equivalent to about 41.32 percent of the existing cards across the archipelago. Data issued by the DICT showed that a total of 69,828,115 users...
The deadline for registration of all Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) in circulation is April 26, 2023. However, with less than two weeks before the deadline, only 65,154,570 SIMs have so far been registered. That is less than 40 percent of the over 170 million SIMs in circulation. Based on...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte With hardly 40 percent of the country’s subscriber identity module or (SIM) cards registered, Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte said its time for authorities to think about the extension provision in Republic Act (RA) No.11934 or the...
