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In a country still trying to figure out a national ID card and from the number of people afraid of checkpoints because they don't have paperwork or it is expired, then are all those phones going to be cut off?
I think not, big families will have a few people register just like parents will for their kids.
The idea behind tracking or enforcing is a joke. Already people have 2 or 3 sim cards (1 for each Telco). I guess the questions are
1. how many sim cards does 1 person need to have before a "red flag" is raised
2 what sing central database is housing the info from each telco
3. What is the lag time between regisering to the database
Keep in mind something similar was going on for VAXCERT for covid. I am sure some of you still may not have your information properly updated on vaccines.

 

Tourists have to have a return ticket anyway - but never expect them to make life easy for an alien (we both share this view, I know!).

I cannot imagine a country that pushes for tourism so much but is also so xenophobic - until I lived in one!

I read the other day about flooding and how this is partly due to "foreign trees" - they were being serious - and illegal logging by their own citizens was hardly mentioned.

 

Registration details for various situations.

https://www.rappler.com/business/si...9ImS64Qans4ujv2N1VhPeR6tR1v2IoQAp4OlZ11-8Ncs0

 

I think governments worldwide now look at China for modelling - i.e. see how they are controlling their population and then copy it. And they do the bidding of other governments, so we have 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, 20 Eyes ... and every fecking 'Eyes' going.

 

The registration period has been extended for a further 90 days, until July 25.

 

I tried a couple times to register my smart sim online, got the usual glitches... Went to Ayala in Cebu (there for other biz) and found the same kiosk outside the office as someone found at Robinsons, clerk registered the sim in 10 min. Expats should bring home passport and visa, clerk will ask you for whatever, easy....

 

I disagree that this law would require users of foreign sims to register these.
The Sim card registration act (RA 11934) refers to "end users" and defines these as follows.
Definition of Terms.
As used in this Act:

(a) End-user refers to any existing subscriber or any individual or juridical entity which purchases a SIM from the public telecommunications entities (PTEs), its agents, resellers or any entity;

As a user of a foreign sim you obviously don't have a subscription with a local PTE, nor did you buy the sim from any local PTE.
When you use the sim in the Philippines (roaming), you still get charged by your foreign provider (which then reimburses the local PTE). Obviously the Philippines has no jurisdiction over foreign PTE's. Moreover, when roaming the person using the phone doesn't even necessarily know which network it connects to.

 

My SIM is Globe and I have a 13a Visa.
Globe had "non-citizen resident" as a choice that's what I selected.

I had to use one of my life lines and phone a friend.
Globe wanted me to upload a photo showing where I live. Maybe I was overthinking, maybe I wasn't thinking at all. What the H3ll did they want? A picture of my house? A picture of my gate? A picture of a cardboard box?
On the advise of my friend I uploaded a photo of my ACR-I card that showed my address on the back.
Globe could have worded their request a little better. If they had said "send us a photo of an official document showing your address.

 

I see one of the requirements for registration if you have a tourist visa is proof of return ticket, they just don't know when to stop.....