PLDT Group is urging subscribers with Smart Satellite (SmartSAT) prepaid SIM cards to register ahead of the deadline on 25 July 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.
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.
This includes subscribers of Smart Enterprise Postpaid Plans, Smart Enterprise Extension Postpaid Lines, PLDT Fixed Wireless Services with SIM component, and Smart Satellite devices and SIMs.
