Several members of the House of Representatives lauded the national government’s decision to extend the SIM card registration deadline and called on telecommunication providers and authorities to place measures that would increase inclusivity.
Villafuerte, one of the authors of the SIM Registration Act , has appealed several times to the government to. Last April 13 — or less than two weeks before the original deadline — he stressed that as of April 7, only 36.79 percent of SIM cards sold had been registered.
“In separately appealing for an extension, the three PTEs — Smart, Globe, and DITO — told the DICT and NTC that many legitimate SIM holders have possibly failed to register their SIMs over the four-month sign-up period because of their lack of the required ID cards for them to list up or because of digital challenges such as the poor connectivity or no Internet at all, especially in what the PTEs have called the ‘missionary’ or faraway places across the country,” he added.
One way of doing this, he said, is to address concerns with the provision of identification cards and connectivity issues especially in far-flung areas.
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