Section 4Sec./Art. 4

SIM Registration. -In order to regulate the registration and use of SIMs, all end-users shall be required to register their SIMs with PTEs as a pre-requisite to the activation thereof, in accordance with the guidelines set forth under this Act.

For purposes of this Act, all the SIMs to be sold by the PTEs, its agents, resellers, or any entity shall be in a deactivated state. It shall only be activated after the end-user completes the process of registration.

All existing SIMs subscribers shall register the same with their respective PTEs within one hundred eighty (180) days from the effectivity of this Act. The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) may extend registration for a period not exceeding one hundred twenty (120) days.

Failure to register the existing SIM within the periods prescribed herein shall result in automatic deactivation of the SIM. The deactivated SIM may only be reactivated after registration in accordance with this Act.

PTEs shall include the data of existing postpaid subscribers in the SIM Register to align with the registration requirement of this Act.