Implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for the SIM Registration Act would be release on December 12, just in time for the law to go into effect on December 27.
PREVIOUSLY: SIM Registration Law Takes Effect Next Month
The National Telecommunications Commissions (NTC) wrIte the IRR, and a public hearing is set for December 5.
Under the draft IRR, a SIM card user can register his number within six months. Which can be extende by four more months. But if the SIM card is not reporte within time. It will be turne off automatically.
What You Need to Know About the SIM Card Registration Law
The NTC said that people who give false information when they sign up would have to spend six months to two years in prison or a fine of at least ₱100,000.
A subscriber will also spend at least six years in jail if they use a SIM card that was stolen or was not registere under their name. The registration form shall be done electronically through a secure platform or website that the PTEs shall provide to their subscribers.
They must give their full name, date of birth, sex, current or official address, and a valid ID card from the government.
PTEs must include the information and data of existing postpaid subscribers in the SIM register to meet the registration requirement.
“However, such existing postpaid subscribers shall be require to confirm their information and data included in the SIM register through the PTE’s registration platform or website,” it said.
The NTC said users could sign up for as many SIM cards as they wanted if they gave the correct information and ID.
If the user is from a country other than the Philippines, they must also give their full name, nationality, passport number, address in the Philippines, and the type of document they are using.
The NTC and DICT said they would set up booths in out-of-the-way places to help Filipinos sign up.
They can also buy SIM cards in stores, but they will only work once registered.
The NTC say service providers would also be punish if they gave out users’ personal information. At least ₱4 million will have fined them.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) told people to avoi getting rippe off by text scams. The PNP data showed that from March to November 2021, there were more than 7,000 cybercrime cases, and this year, there have been more than 12,000 cybercrime cases.
“If people are vigilant, they would find out all these types of scams, all these modus, pare-pareho din siya in a sense. Yung precautions will always be the same,” said PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group Police Colonel Michelle Sabino.
The PNP said that text scammers started working before the SIM registration law IRR went into effect on December 27.
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