The Department of Information and Communications Technology insisted there was no need to extend the registration deadline for SIMs even if less than half of the 168 million SIMs in use in the country have been registered. | TyronePiad /PDI
The majority of the registrations were accounted for by Smart with 36.11 million, followed by Globe with 31.59 million and DITO, 5.33 million.
The firms said that the most common difficulty was having acceptable forms of identification. The government itself has not met its own deadline for providing acceptable identification cards to consumers.According to the Philippine Statistics Authority website, only 33.5 million Philippine Identification System cards have been delivered to registered individuals, although the agency has printed more than 60 million as of March 15.
Globe said that extending the deadline would allow customers to secure the ID requirement for the mandatory registration. It also suggested that alternative forms of identification be accepted, such as company and school IDs and barangay certificates.
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