I read this article in the Star with interest about users now being able to transfer their mobile numbers to other telco. (click here to read the whole article)
An except of the news:
Mobile phone users can now enjoy the freedom of switching network service providers without having to forego their original phone number (including the prefix).
Effective Friday, the service will be extended to users with prepaid mobile phone numbers in the Klang Valley. Postpaid users can start enjoying the facility in two weeks.
Now, why am I excited? Quite simply becaue over the past couple of months, I’ve been getting terrible and I really mean TERRIBLE reception from Maxis around my housing area. And I’ve been thinking about switching over to other Telcos. Even though I had a very nice number to use from Maxis, the negative about not able to receive and making calls through your only mean of communication to your clients are just throwing me off.
So with this good news coming up, I believe I could safely keep this number which most of my clients would already know by heart and yet get a better reception that is provided by another Telco, in my current state of choice, DiGi. I will still maintain a Maxis number but that’ll only be used for among personal contacts and is never revealed to my clients. At least that way, if I don’t want to be disturbed by irrating calls from certain quarters (namely spammers using unidentified numbers). I could just safely switch off my 017 and leave the other line open as the one that should need to contact me be able to reach me.
Anyway, we’ll see how this goes especially with some of the Telcos guaranteed to lose their market shares to the better players, will they buck up their services or will they just sit there and enjoy their current success only to see it plummet at a later stage when their competitors climb above them?
Any Maxis officers reading this? I know there’s one or two of you cause you actually contacted me the first time I posted up a complain about your bad reception in my housing area. Anyway, if you’re reading this. It’s time you look at strengthening up the service in Kota Damansara (among a few other areas where I have identified) as well as look at the possibility of even providing HSDPA connection speed in some parts of the place for your Maxis 3G or you’d be seeing alot of people dropping you off and hoping over to your competitors that is providing better services and coverage area.
That’s the interesting headline that appeared in The Star recently.
I read with interest with what Microsoft Malaysia have to say, if you missed the article, here’s what it’s all about.
PETALING JAYA: From today, those with pirated copies of the Windows XP Professional operating system in their computers that are Internet-capable could find their screens going black and the icons vanishing as Microsoft Corp gets tough.
There are 8.6 million users of Windows XP Pro in Malaysia and about three million are expected to suffer the “blackouts”, according to Microsoft Malaysia.
To continue working, users will need to reset the machine’s desktop background. All will return to normal, but only for 60 minutes before another blackout occurs.
The only “cure” is to get a licensed copy of the operating system from a Microsoft reseller or going online at www.microsoft. com/malaysia/genuine. Each licence costs RM580.
The initiative is part of Microsoft’s anti-piracy campaign, dubbed Windows Genuine Advantage, aimed at educating users on the benefits of using genuine software, Microsoft Malaysia client business group director K.T. Ng told The Star yesterday.
Now, how many will be effected by this new development? I mean, how many pirated windows users are there in Malaysia? I would say about 80% of all home users right? One thing I wondered is this, how would they send the necessary updates into the pirated Windows XP to enable that effect to happen? I’m sure the smart ones and even those that isn’t that smart would have been adviced by the pirates to DON’T TURN ON THE UPDATE FUNCTION. By not updating, they wouldn’t be facing this problem right? Read the rest of this entry »
Was browsing through Youtube searching for some Avril Lavigne’s music video but came across this instead.
Quite an interesting video show by The Young Turks (TYT) about what they as muslims think about PAS’ action in trying to ban Avril’s concert.
Watch it and have a good laugh at how some stupid action by some brainless group of people gets criticized by oversea medias. This is just one of the few media that pokes fun at our oh-so-holier-than-thou group’s stupidity.
Just to bring some laugh to everyone who drops by this blog. At times, not even sure whether I should call it a blog or my lil portfolio of photos/work I’m doing as I tend to mix both of them here and there despite the fact that I wanted this site to be my portfolio to showcase my works to my client.
Anyway, sit back and enjoy these, hope you have a good laugh.
