{"id":54277,"date":"2023-02-23T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=54277"},"modified":"2023-02-23T06:55:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:55:02","slug":"septuagenarian-benefits-from-ramped-up-sim-registration-efforts-of-smart-tnt-and-ntc-in-mindanao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2023\/02\/23\/septuagenarian-benefits-from-ramped-up-sim-registration-efforts-of-smart-tnt-and-ntc-in-mindanao\/","title":{"rendered":"Septuagenarian benefits from ramped-up SIM registration efforts of Smart, TNT and NTC in Mindanao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) and TNT continue to ramp up its SIM Registration efforts in Mindanao, to encourage more subscribers to register their SIMs. In collaboration with the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Smart and TNT have deployed registration booths in remote communities in the Davao Region, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula, Caraga and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s all help stop text scams and register our SIMs now!&#8221; encouraged NTC Region 10 Regional Director Ted Buenavista, calling on the public to do their part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seventy-year-old Delia Salvador of San Fernando, Bukidnon, a Smart subscriber for more than 20 years, recounted her SIM registration experience:&nbsp; \u201cI am thankful for the efforts of Smart and the local government. I wouldn\u2019t be able to register my SIM without this initiative because I don\u2019t know how to do it myself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smart, TNT and NTC have teamed up with the local government unit of Padada, Davao del Sur to bring the service closer to hinterland communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are grateful to NTC and Smart as this is a huge help to our constituents. We really hope that more people will heed our call to register their SIMs as this is for their own protection,\u201d said Kris Aero Guerrero, representative of Padada Municipality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSmart\u2019s SIM card registration drive in remote areas is part of the company\u2019s overarching goal to protect more subscribers from SIM-, internet-, and electronic communication-aided crimes,\u201d said Cathy Yang, FVP &amp; Group Head of Corporate Communications at PLDT &amp; Smart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SIM owners have until April 26, 2023, to register their SIMs before these will be deactivated.&nbsp; Subscribers are advised to register their SIMS to keep these active and to help fight against scammers and predators online. New and existing Smart Prepaid and TNT subscribers may also visit PLDT and Smart stores and access Smart\u2019s SIM registration portal through&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smart.com.ph\/simreg\">smart.com.ph\/simreg<\/a>, while postpaid customers can simply text YES to 5858 to confirm their registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Smart and TNT have deployed registration booths in remote communities in the Davao Region, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula, Caraga and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":54278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[343,96,2727,1656,4563],"class_list":["post-54277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-smart-communications","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment","tag-tnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54277","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=54277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}