Sen. Grace Poe issued last-minute appeals to mobile phone subscribers to enlist their SIM cards and to telecommunication firms and state agencies to ratchet up the list-up effort three days before the April 26 deadline. | jiandradeINQ MRamosINQ /PDI
Some 95 million users have yet to register their SIM cards, according to the Department of Information and Communications Technology , prompting telcos Smart Communications Inc., Globe Telecom Inc. and DITO Telecommunity Corp. to seek an extension.
“This should be matched with a fortified infrastructure to handle the gush of transactions from those who will sign up their SIM,” she said.Appeal for extension The House member reminded the DICT that its refusal to extend the four-month registration period would mean automatic deactivation of the phones of those who failed to beat the deadline.
He warned that this might lead to “disenfranchisement” of mobile phone users, “thereby dealing a severe blow to the Marcos administration’s efforts to fast-track our country’s digital transformation.”
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