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TNT (formerly known as Piltel, Mobiline, Phone Pal, and still unofficially known as Talk 'N Text) is a cellular service of Smart Communications in the Philippines. [1]
By virtue of SIM Registration Act and due to the deactivation of unregistered SIM cards, Smart has 50.0 million subscribers as of July 26, 2023. [23] Smart now becomes the network with the most subscribers, beating Globe Telecom by 1.6 million subscribers.
As of 1 August 2023, the total number of subscribers in the Philippines was estimated at 113.97 million, a stark contrast from the 167.9 million before the mandatory sim card registration in the country.
SIM cards are identified on their individual operator networks by a unique international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI). Mobile network operators connect mobile phone calls and communicate with their market SIM cards using their IMSIs. The format is: The first three digits represent the Mobile country code (MCC).
The mobile country code consists of three decimal digits and the mobile network code consists of two or three decimal digits (for example: MNC of 001 is not the same as MNC of 01). The first digit of the mobile country code identifies the geographic region as follows (the digits 1 and 8 are not used): 0: Test networks. 2: Europe.
This is a list of the world's thirty largest terrestrial mobile phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions.
The SIM Registration Act, officially designated as Republic Act No. 11934 and commonly referred to as the SIM card law, is a Philippine law mandating the registration of SIM cards before activation. Under the measure, mobile device users, must register their SIM cards, whether prepaid or postpaid.
Before the implementation of the SIM Registration Act, DITO had 14 million subscribers in 2022, exceeding the 12-million target subscriber base. [44] As of July 30, 2023, DITO registered 7,740,346 subscribers after unregistered SIM cards were deactivated by virtue of the SIM Registration Act.