Globe Telecom Inc. said Monday it upgraded its SIM registration platform to enable data verification to deter fraud.
“With improved verification, Globe will be able to immediately weed out fraudulent submissions and avoid issues we had to confront in the first year of SIM registration, including the use of fake IDs and fraudulent information,” Globe Group general counsel Froilan Castelo said.
“Our goal is to complete validation within 24 hours, and we’ll continue to fine-tune our solution as we test out this process,” he said.
Globe said this was in line with fresh guidelines from the National Telecommunications Commission, after tests showed how fraudulent IDs and details passed telcos’ SIM registration platforms.
It would bolster the platform’s existing security features such as optical character recognition, its data-matching capability that compares information between SIM users’ IDs and submitted forms and the selfie requirement.
Globe said it also started undertaking vigorous verification of SIM registration data covering an estimated 61.4 million SIM users, with the review expected to be finished within 2024.
“In light of red flags that law enforcement authorities raised on the vulnerabilities of telcos’ SIM registration platforms, this stringent review aims to retroactively remove questionable submissions. With this step and our improved verification for all future submissions, our goal is to ensure the integrity of SIM registration data,” Castelo said.
