The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) says that more than 105 million Filipinos registered their SIM cards before the deadline of July 25.
To accommodate consumers in weak cellular signal areas, the government extended the deadline to July 25 from April 26.
READ: NTC Officialy Rolls Out SIM Card Registration in Remote Areas
Yesterday, Ivan John Uy, the secretary of the DICT, told media, “We’re on target.”
This means that registration has been done for 63 percent of all SIM cards in the country.
The SIM Card Law
DICT emphasized that after the deadline, unregistered users will no longer be able to use their SIM cards. It’s going to be a more tedious process to reactivate.
Uy also said that only 70 percent of SIM card registrations could be real because some users have more than one SIM card.
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