Villafuerte also noted that according to the NTC website, only around 66.21 million SIM cards have been registered as of April 11 — a measly 39.41 percent of 168.9 million SIM cards in use nationwide.
This means that in five days or from April 7 to 11, the number of registered SIM cards only jumped by around four million or 800,000 per day. If such a number is sustained until April 26, only 12 million more SIM cards would be registered or just around 85 million cards.
“A highly successful registration of SIMs is much desired, as such will make it easier for the authorities or PTEs to trace persons behind text scams and hold them accountable for breach of privacy along with celfone-based fraud and other punishable offenses they have been able to perpetrate by using unknown or unregistered celfone numbers,” Villafuerte said.
“The DICT and NTC need to work in tandem with the PTEs in going full-blast on their nationwide registration drives in the remaining days before the deadline in a last-ditch joint effort to prod the owners of more than 100 million SIM cards that have yet to be recorded in the system to do so before the April 26 limit,” he added.
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