A senior lawmaker on Wednesday asked Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to ensure the public of a “foolproof” cellular phone registration. Know more:
A senior lawmaker on Wednesday asked Department of Information and Communications Technology and the National Telecommunications Commission to ensure the public of a “foolproof” cellular phone registration.
Villafuerte, co-author of Republic Act 11394 that President Marcos signed last October 10, at the same time supported the plan by DICT Secretary Ivan John Uy to let both prepaid and postpaid subscribers register their respective cell phones’ subscriber identity module cards online, to avoid the scenario of them getting stuck in long queues to sign up at would-be registration centers of PTEs in malls and other commercial establishments.
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