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Globe, a leading mobile provider, introduces the National Telecommunications Commission's (NTC) publication of new recommendations designed to enhance ID verification during SIM registration. Despite Globe's complete compliance with the SIM Registration Act's requirements, which resulted in the registration of 54M SIMs, there is still room for improvement to assist prevent online fraud and scams. Second, the current NTC recommendations aimed at confirming SIM owner identity are a positive step. While Globe will abide by the rules, further investments are required to implement a more advanced identification system. Froilan Castelo, General Counsel of the Globe Group. "Moving forward, we are optimistic that with the recent post-validation guidelines from the NTC, we will be able to weed out those who submitted fake credentials to register, deactivate their SIMs, and report them to law enforcers for investigation,” Castelo said. Globe called on SIM users to submit only verified information and IDs in registering their SIMs as fraudulent submissions are penalized under the SIM Registration Act. Globe has asked the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to require DITO Telecommunity to pay for interconnect penalties amounting to PHP 622 million. Read more in our articles including "Globe introduces new verification guidelines from NTC" and "Globe asks NTC to compel DITO to pay PHP 622M penalty for violating interconnect agreement".