All current subscribers must register their SIM cards under the Sim Registration Act to prevent deactivation. The deadline for subscribers to register their SIM cards is April 26th, 2023. Within five days of their automatic deactivation, all deactivated SIM cards may be registered and activated again. If your SIM card has been deactivated, you can reactivate it by registering it again. But you need to do this within five days of the deactivation. After that, it may be more difficult or impossible to reactivate it.
In the Philippines, all sim cards (Globe, Smart, Dito, GOMO, TNT, Sun, and TM) offer free registration, but what does this actually mean for all users? In this article, we will go over the pros and cons of registering SIM cards for all users, including those of us gamers who play video games anonymously for privacy.
Sim Card Registration is extended for 90 days.
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How to Register Sim Cards in the Philippines
It is essential for all users of PH SIM Cards to register their SIMs, as required by Philippine law. Globe, Smart, TNT, GOMO, Dito, and TM are among the available Sim Cards. The procedures to register your SIM cards in the Philippines are as follows:
or 49.20 million subscribers have been registered.
According to the SIM Card Registration Act, individuals who currently possess SIM cards are required to register their numbers within 180 days of the law's enactment, or by April 26th, 2023.
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Globe and TM – Sim Card Registration
*Important Note: The phone number linked to your SIM card must be entered first in order for your telecom provider to issue you an OTP so that you may finish the registration procedure. Make sure you have a strong signal during your sim card registration because the OTP code will expire in a few minutes. If you fail to enter the code in the given time frame, you will be prompted to request another OTP code for your registration to be successful.
- Click this Link.
- Fill in the information needed.
- Provide one ID from the government.
Smart, Sun, and TNT – Sim Card Registration
- Click this Link.
- Fill in the information needed.
- Provide one ID from the government.
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GOMO – Sim Card Registration
- Click this Link. Sim Registration is not accessible as of April 19, 2023, we’ll keep this article updated once we get more information about this issue.
- Fill in the information needed.
- Provide one ID from the government.
Dito – Sim Card Registration
- Click this Link.
- Fill in the information needed.
- Provide one ID from the government.
Why you should register your Sim Card / Phone Number? (Pros)
- The law exists to safeguard consumers against criminal practices including scams, smishing, and other forms of online and mobile fraud.
- They have multiplied because criminals can use prepaid SIMs without registering any of their personal information, enabling them to do so anonymously and avoid detection.
- For gamers, adding IDs to each account will ensure that in-game scamming is prevented. This would deter in-game fraudsters from taking advantage of other players during trades in MMORPGs and other games with a trading system.
- However, several MMORPGs have solved this issue by implementing various trading methods, such as consignments and other forms of trading to protect users.
Risks of registering your Sim Card / Phone Number (Cons)
- Both streamers and gamers are expressing a lot of opinions because the majority of us go under pseudonyms.
- Streamers and other figures need anonymity for our safety and privacy.
- Giving out personal information to strangers or other gamers runs the risk of causing extortion, stalking, and other malicious behavior.
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The inclusion of social media, which results in a very ill-defined regulation in the Philippines, is the problematic part of the aforementioned law. Social media networks like Twitch, Facebook, Discord, and game platforms like Steam are all covered by the Social Media Registration Act. In general, a user must register with their personal information in order to post on any social networking site.
Sim Card Registration for Normal Users vs Gamers
The Sim Card Registration Act has both pros and cons, and the government is concerned about keeping an eye on every account because of the large number of scammers and cybercriminals operating on the Filipino network.
On the other hand, gamers and streamers alike would have their privacy violated as a result of this, and they won’t be able to register separate identities because doing so would contradict the aim of the actual law. The bill aims to prohibit the use of false identities when creating accounts and will carry a penalty of up to 200,000 PHP in fines or 6 years in prison. By permanently connecting a player’s identity, private players run the risk of disclosing confidential info to the outside world.
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