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Dismayed by the Presidential veto on the consolidated sim card registration bill, consumer group Laban Konsyumer Inc. (LKI) said the Philippines is now left farther behind its ASEAN peers. LKI President Victorio Mario Dimagiba “We are left behind farther in ASEAN by the veto. Even Timor Leste ha
Except the Philippines, the ASEAN member states Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam have enacted laws requiring mandatory registration of prepaid sim card. Some require biometric or fingerprint identification in addition to the usual p
CONSIDERING THE LEGAL TENABILITY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW SIM REGISTRATION RULES On November 7, 2011, the Federal Government of Nigeria passed the Communications Commission ("Registration of Telephone Subscribers") Regulations 2 which required mobile phone subscribers to allow their finger prints and a biometric map of their faces to be collected and registered to their SIM cards, which are then stored in a central government database. Subsequently, on December 9, 2020, the Nigerian Communications Commission ("NCC") issued a directive for the suspension of new SIM registration by network ...