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.

The Nuffnang WILD Blogging Party has come and gone, everyone had some fun, quite a number of people actually blogged from the venue too. As for me, it was camwhoring session …. now, you suffer the consequences of my camwhoring session with LOADS OF PHOTOS!!!!

with the Nuffies!

with Hanis and Adeline watching me blog.

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Yesterday, took a trip down to KLCC to visit the Maxis Center there. All because we wanted to get our hands on the Maxis Broadband WILD USB dongle. So off we went after work, taking the LRT down, and hope right into Maxis upon arrival. Picked our choiced patterns and hook it up for the initial test. WOO HOO!!! Don’t expect great things out of it but if you need a system to help hook you up to the net when you’re no where near any free Wifi or Streamyx, then this is it!

Now I feel Wild!

After that, 1901 for dinner, it’s been awhile since I last ate in 1901 but there’s no photos as we went to KLCC with a mission and not for sight seeing. One shop we walked past that made us do a double take is the Famous Amos shop though. It’s been years since I last ate and decide to go buy us a pack before all these food items sky rocket no thanks to the fuel increase.

Hang around for awhile, surf the net in that area for awhile before we made our way back home… Oh yeah.. there’s also the Bobby Brown, but it’s not for me. LOL

Stewardess do use expensive make-ups…