Subscriber Identification Mobile (SIM) cards are mainly used to connect to networks and deliver communication features for the user, and the Philippines is making it mandatory for its citizens to ...

As of the last estimates, the number of mobile phone subscribers in the Philippines is expected to overtake its actual population of over 96 million people. Some estimates even peg the number to ...

Some pundits have suggested that the recent bombing of a passenger bus in Makati City in the Philippines was designed to distract the public and government from its focused clamp down on car theft ...

By November 10, Cyprus will have joined 160 other countries who demand all users of pay-as-you-go SIM cards to register their identity with legal documentation, or the numbers they may have used for ...

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About two years ago, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) descended heavily on all carriers for failing to deactivate improperly registered subscriber identity module (SIM) cards on their ...

Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar has urged the Home Affairs Ministry to make it mandatory to have biometric identification presented, such as fingerprints, for the registration of new SIM cards, ...

Registering subscriber identity module (SIM) cards became operative for very obvious reasons in the country. While the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) got budgetary allocation of about ...