{"id":53373,"date":"2022-12-29T12:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T04:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=53373"},"modified":"2022-12-29T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T04:22:47","slug":"smart-nets-higher-than-forecast-sim-registrants-on-heavy-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/12\/29\/smart-nets-higher-than-forecast-sim-registrants-on-heavy-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart nets higher than forecast SIM registrants on heavy volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications has received close to 400,000 successful applications\u00a0since\u00a0SIM card registration\u00a0began\u00a0on Dec. 27.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the first day of SIM Registration,\u00a0244,840\u00a0Smart Prepaid, Smart Bro, and TNT users;\u00a0and 143,682\u00a0Smart Postpaid subscribers, or a total of 388,522 subscribers, were able to complete their SIM registration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur postpaid subscribers were able to receive their registration confirmation within 2 minutes. Some of our prepaid subscribers, meanwhile, may have experienced&nbsp;<strong>initial<\/strong>&nbsp;difficulties in accessing our portal and in completing the registration process due to the heavy volume of registration traffic throughout the day,\u201d said Atty.&nbsp;Kenneth Rega\u00f1on, Smart regulatory affairs senior manager, in a report to the National Telecommunications Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs early as 3 am, subscribers were already trying to register and access our portal. To address this surge, we immediately increased the capacity of our portal, without going offline, enabling the registration of more subscribers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile these glitches and birth pains are common during the initial stages of implementing new systems, we continue to optimize our SIM registration platform to mitigate future incidents, and to better serve more Filipinos. We are likewise confident that we will be able to accommodate the registration of all existing subscribers within the deadline set by the law and the&nbsp;implementing&nbsp;rules and&nbsp;regulations. Rest assured that we are doing our best to deliver the best SIM registration experience possible for our subscribers,\u201d said Cathy Yang, PLDT and Smart group corporate communications head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New and existing&nbsp;<strong>Smart and TNT<\/strong>&nbsp;prepaid subscribers&nbsp;can&nbsp;access&nbsp;Smart\u2019s SIM registration&nbsp;portal&nbsp;through&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smart.com.ph\/simreg\">smart.com.ph\/simreg<\/a>, while postpaid subscribers can simply text YES to 5858 to confirm their registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of SIM Registration,\u00a0244,840\u00a0Smart Prepaid, Smart Bro, and TNT users;\u00a0and 143,682\u00a0Smart Postpaid subscribers, or a total of 388,522 subscribers, were able to complete their SIM registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[343,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-53373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-smart-communications","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}