PLDT’s mobile division, Smart Communications, has doubled its SIM registrations since early January, bringing the total number to over 10 million, including prepaid, postpaid and corporate customers.
Almost a quarter of the 2 million postpaid subscribers were enrolled by January 15th. Prepaid numbers reached 9.4 million out of a total of 66.6 million. About 182,000 corporate customers are registered.
Smart Communications recorded a total of 5.2 million registrations by January 2nd, less than a week after the SIM registration portal went live.
In a tweet, the operator advised subscribers to register their SIMs to combat online scammers and predators.
Globe Telecom recorded 8.8 million SIMs registered. That’s his 10% of 87.9 million subscribers, according to National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) data.
Dito Telecommunity reported 13.3% of total registered subscribers, or 1.7 million.
According to NTC data, 12.2% of the country’s 169 million subscribers are registered.
Registration deadline is April 26th.
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