THE SIM registration period, which will end on July 25, will no longer be extended, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) secretary Ivan John Uy said yesterday.
During the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a Connectivity Index Rating in the country, Uy announced that the majority of active subscriber identity module (SIM) users have already registered.
Some 104 million SIMs out of the over 160 million in the country have been registered, DICT data showed.
“May extension ba ang SIM card registration? Wala po. Walang extension. July 25 is a hard deadline. ‘Yung matitigas ang ulo, please parehistro na kayo dahil by 12:01 ng July 26, wala na connectivity ang mga hindi nagparehistro,” said Uy.
The DICT does not expect all SIMs to be registered since some of these are no longer in use.
Unregistered SIMs will automatically be deactivated after the deadline. Users of deactivated SIMs have a five-day grace period to register their mobile numbers, the DICT said.
Uy warned that text scams could continue to rise in the last four days leading to the deadline. Scammers are also shifting to other platforms, he said.
Out of the total 104,334,729 registered SIMs as of July 20, Globe registered 47,587,138, Smart with 49,324,526, and DITO with 7,423,065. (ABS-CBN News)
