CAMARINES Sur Rep. Luis Raymund "LRay" Villafuerte supported a government plan to set up subscriber identity module (SIM) registration centers in areas with limited internet access and has asked local government units (LGUs) to assist in the establishment of kiosks in their respective jurisdictions in support of public-private efforts to meet the deadline for signing up an estimated 168 million SIM numbers of cellular phone owners in the country.
"However, this number of registrants is just over 12 percent of the projected 168 million SIM cards in the country, so unless the registration process is switched to overdrive from hereon, the public telecommunications entities, along with the DICT (Department of Information and Communications Technology) and NTC (National Telecommunications Commission), might not have enough time to complete the registration process on or before the deadline set by the SIM Registration Act," Villafuerte said on Wednesday.
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