The country’s telecommunications companies were ordered to submit incident reports on anomalies regarding their SIM card registration processes by Wednesday, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said. READ:
In a memorandum issued Tuesday, the NTC said the order was in response to “numerous incidents involving unsuccessful or incomplete SIM registration from the general public.”
Smart, with 68 million subscribers, said it had a total of 388,522 SIM registrations across its postpaid and prepaid, Smart Bro, and TNT brands as of yesterday. He noted that during the public consultations on the implementing rules and regulations of the SIM Card Registration Act, there were concerns about how to ensure the identity of subscribers using their SIM cards.
“The new law imposes a lot of penalties… a lot will try to subvert the system, submit fake IDs and fake names. But now, we warn our countrymen to be honest in what SIM cards they use and the information they give,” she told ABS-CBN TeleRadyo.Globe Group chief sustainability and corporate communications officer Yoly Crisanto said: “Our SIM registration platform is back up and running, and we’re happy to report that our customers are logging in to register.
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