rebate??? for what uh?

Wow it seems that my theory is correct! Initially I was shocked bcoz maxis came out with such affordable plan for everyone for the new iPhone. Tat really got me thinking. There was no explanation as other countries seemed to increase their i3gs price as compared to 3g. But maxis i3gs price is identical to i3g price. I was thinking no way since even in the US ppl r complaining about the price hike. But they forgot tat apple gave them rebate when they upgraded from 2g to i3g. So since maxis din bring in i2g, apple has to give rebate for customers who wish to upgrade from i3g to i3gs! Tats the reason y the prepaid price is pretty affordable too. I won't b surprised if the next version of iPhone is more exp than i3gs as experienced by US customers now for i3gs.

@thaisxs

while u might sound tat u r benefiting from this, u r actually losing money if previously u bought your i3g from maxis. Assuming u bought it during the launch which is end of march your i3g would b priced around rm1-1.5k depending on it's condition since it's only less than 5 months old. And you r happy maxis paid u only rm500?