Overview
- Phone suspensions began after the Saturday, August 15 deadline for numbers ending in 0, with carriers starting gradual cuts within the CRT’s 72‑hour window for unregistered lines.
- The registration is free and can be done online through operator portals or in person at service centers, and it requires an official ID, the user’s CURP and a biometric liveness check that issues a folio on completion.
- CRT and outlets report that service is reactivated immediately once an operator validates the registration and that users have a reported 90‑day period to regularize a suspended line before it can be permanently cancelled or reassigned.
- The staggered calendar continues through December, with the next deadline on 31 August for lines ending in 1, and the CRT has said it will not grant another blanket extension.
- The CRT reported about 71 million lines linked by mid‑August, operators warn the process may disrupt banking and two‑factor authentication that rely on mobile service, and suspended lines will still allow emergency calls and official alerts.