Overview
- The regulator, citing a May 13 cut-off, said 48 million mobile lines are now linked to an official ID out of about 144.6 million active lines, with unregistered numbers facing suspension starting July 1 that blocks calls, texts and mobile data but leaves 911 access.
- AT&T reported to media that as of May 4 it had about 7 million of its 24.1 million lines registered, including 4.1 million postpaid and 2.9 million prepaid, underscoring slow progress in the much larger prepaid segment.
- CRT recently revised the nation’s active-line base from more than 161 million to about 144.6 million, a shift that inflates the apparent percentage complete and changes how many registrations per day are needed to finish on time.
- The program bans biometric collection after a 2022 Supreme Court ruling, so carriers must link each line to a CURP or RFC using IDs and documents and are legally responsible for storing and protecting that data.
- A public portal lets people check how many numbers are tied to their CURP and request unlinking of unknown lines, while early rollouts saw site outages and a wave of carrier messages urging customers to register to avoid service loss.