Smart hails the issuance of the SIM Registration Law’s Implementing Rules and Regulations as it gears up to launch its SIM registration portal to ensure an easy, convenient, and rewarding SIM registration experience for its subscribers.
“We are proud to have been able to contribute to the crafting of the IRR, which also aims to be all inclusive as Public Telecommunication Entities (PTEs) shall also provide additional means to assist persons with disabilities, senior citizens, pregnant women, and/or persons with special needs in registering their respective SIMs–a provision that was added even as it was not mentioned specifically in the law.”
“We join the National Telecommunications Commission, key regulators and government agencies, and our counterparts in other PTEs in ensuring the orderly and effective implementation of our SIM Registration Law.”
– Atty. Roy Ibay, VP and Head of Regulatory of Smart Communication, Inc.
“With connectivity being crucial to powering the Philippine economy’s resurgence, we reaffirm our commitment to ensure that the implementation of the SIM Registration Law will be easy and convenient for subscribers and will not deprive subscribers of their right to connectivity.”
“We are ready to roll out our SIM Registration processes after months of preparations, which have included, among others, studying best global practices and technology solutions from other countries that have already implemented SIM registration. We will release more information about the SIM registration portal via our official channels in the next few weeks.”
– Francis E. Flores, SVP and Head of Consumer Business Group – Individual at Smart
Smart and PLDT’s Initiatives to Combat Illegal Activities
Alongside their support for SIM registration, Smart and PLDT’s consumer protection initiatives also include measures aimed at curbing mobile phone-aided criminal activities such as text scams. Apart from blocking SIMs that send ‘smishing’ messages, Smart has also blocked Unform Resource Locators (URL) linked to such illegal activities.
In 2021, PLDT and Smart invested nearly PHP 3 billion in cybersecurity infrastructure to help safeguard the public against emerging cyberthreats, vulnerabilities, and other online criminal activities
Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.
