Present during the event were Executives from DITO Telecommunity, DITO CME, and DICT Undersecretary David Almirol unite at the launch of DITO Verified to champion Silent Network Authentication—a technology that silently verifies users via the carrier network in under four seconds with no codes required, eliminating fraud risks to make the DITO SIM the most secure mobile identity in Philippine digital banking. Pictured from left to right are Mr. Luigi Lopa, Deputy Chief Revenue Officer of DITO Telecommunity; Atty. Adel Tamano, Chief Commercial Officer of DITO Telecommunity; Usec. David Almirol, Undersecretary of DICT; Mr. Eric Alberto, President and CEO of DITO Telecommunity; Mr. Donald Lim, President and COO of DITO CME; and Mr. Leandro Santos, Assistant Vice President for DITO Enterprise.
DITO Verified silently authenticates users through the carrier network in under four seconds — with no code sent, no user action required, and no attack surface for fraudsters to exploit.
DITO Telecommunity Corporation today announced the commercial availability of DITO Verified, a Silent Network Authentication (SNA) service built in partnership with Shush Inc. and will be launched through a growing network of demand partners. The launch makes DITO the first telecommunications operator in the Philippines with a commercially available, unified solution for carrier-native user verification.
When a customer opens a banking app, e-wallet, or digital platform on DITO mobile data, DITO Verified confirms the user’s identity in one to four seconds — performing a silent cryptographic exchange between DITO’s network and the SIM card in the device. No code is ever transmitted. There is nothing for a fraudster to intercept, steal, or socially engineer from the user. From the customer’s perspective, they simply opened the app.
Fraudsters today exploit weaknesses in legacy authentication methods. With DITO Verified, verification happens directly through the DITO mobile network — there is nothing for a scammer to steal. This is our commitment: to make the DITO SIM the most secure mobile identity in Philippine digital banking.
— Atty. Adel Tamano, Chief Commercial Officer, DITO Telecommunity
The service is powered by Shush Inc.’s Sherlock platform, an authentication infrastructure active in more than 40 countries and trusted by enterprises worldwide, allowing Philippine institutions to add SNA alongside their existing OTP flows with minimal integration effort.
With DITO’s reach and Sherlock’s proven platform, we are demonstrating that carrier-native silent authentication can protect millions of Filipinos at scale. This partnership places the Philippines at the forefront of the global authentication transition in Southeast Asia.
— Eddie DeCurtis, Co-Founder and CEO, Shush Inc.
Promotexter has served the Philippine enterprise market for nearly two decades. We are here because we believe our clients deserve a security outcome not just a delivery rate. DITO Verified through Promotexter is the upgrade the market has been waiting for.
— Philip Davis, President and CEO, Promotexter Philippines
The launch is directly aligned with Republic Act No. 12010, the Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act (AFASA), signed July 2024 and BSP Circular No. 1213, issued June 2025, which together mandate phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication for BSP-supervised institutions. DITO Verified satisfies both instruments by design: its cryptographic, carrier-backed verification produces no transmittable code and cannot be compromised through social engineering.
The DITO-Shush partnership was first announced at the Asian Carriers Conference in Cebu in September 2025, and the commercial deployment was showcased at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona during a session on network APIs. DITO ends 2024 with 13.67 million subscribers and NTC-certified national population coverage of 86.30 percent.
