PLDT Group asked subscribers with Smart Satellite to register their SIM cards ahead of the deadline on July 25 this year to ensure continued service.
“As mandated under the SIM Registration Act, you also need to register your SmartSAT SIMs. Otherwise, any unregistered satellite SIM will be deactivated after the set SIM registration deadline by the government,” Mitch Locsin, first vice president and head of enterprise and international business groups of PLDT and Smart, said.
SmartSAT provides voice calls, emails, text messages and data services in areas with compromised or difficult cellular coverage.
The service is useful to individuals and communities in critical and demanding fields such as the media, the military, adventure tourism and the country’s disaster and emergency response agencies, as well as to business groups and even private entities who need the security of having a back-up or enhanced mobile coverage, for extreme scenarios when everything else breaks down.
All SIM users are required to register their SIMs, according to Republic Act No. 11934 or the Subscriber Identity Module Registration Act.