How do you contact the emergency services in case of an emergency? Borrow the wife's phone, neighbors, passerby?
And these Telcos (PLDT/Smart included) are supposed to be registering millions of sims but can't even produce a reliable internet service. That's why disasster has '@ss' in it (as long as you misspell it).
Just done registration of my 2 numbers with Globe. It was immediately confirmed through text mssg by Globe. As a foreigner with ACR 13 A you need copy/picture of your passport, a selfie picture, copy/picture of your ACR 13 A card (front side only), copy/picture of proof of your address (any current Bill with your name and address will do). Make sure that each file size is not bigger then 2 MB. If you use your cellphone to photo the requirements and the file is bigger then 2 MB, crop them much down as possible to go below 2 MB. But be careful with the ID's, the ID's must be in full size, just crop them without any part of the ID. Make sure, if you make pictures of the requirements, that they are not blurry. Before you upload your Passport, there is a field above it to fill in your Passport Nr.. Before you submit the form, you need to check the Globe agreement, just check the required boxes, not the optional. When ask for your Phone Nr. in the field with the 63 already filled in, enter your Phone Nr. without the 0. Hope, that helps. Here is the link to the Globe Registration: https://www.globe.com.ph/register-sim-card.html#gref
Well, the "smart" way was to register it 2 years ago. Took me a few minutes at a SMART outlet. Now it seems to be chaos. Gesendet von meinem M2101K6G mit Tapatalk
Managed to register my Globe sim this time but problems with registering smart sim! Oops Sorry, your registration cannot be processed at this time. Please try again later.
i haven't tried my globe sim yet but i've been working on registering a new smart sim and, after many, many hours spent over 3 days, i got 3 pages into it and registration looks to be a little different for foreigners depending on what visa a person has. the smart registration site gives two choices; tourist and non tourist. the tourist visa option requires a return ticket the non-tourist visa requires a work permit. i have a13A visa which is a type of tourist visa, right? but the registration site doesn't give an option for 13a so i ran into a wall becuz the tourist visa option needs a ''return ticket'' which i don't have... anyone else having more fun in the fils? https://simreg.smart.com.ph/
A 13A is a residency visa, not tourist. May not help if you still get a requirement for a work permit. Seems a bit odd, but not self-tested as I don't have a Smart sim.