can postpaid change to prepaid in MNP?

any charges to switch to Digi
or to Maxis?

haha im already switch from xpax to hotlink...

registered at 12pm at hotlink promotion booth, just within half hour my xpax simcard is not active anymore and i had to change to the new simcard (hotlink) provide by maxis..

registration procedure really easy and fast, just bring ic and they'll give new simcard free

i think i'll use this hotlink a week or two, then i'll port to celcom uox for better rates

Snag in number portability

KUALA LUMPUR: The much-awaited mobile number portability (MNP) service has finally been introduced, but not all cellphone users are jumping for joy.

There are other issues to grapple with now, involving call and SMS charges.

With MNP, users can switch from one service provider to another while retaining their phone numbers, prefix included.

But here is where it gets tricky – mobile phone users could end up paying higher bills as call charges to different network providers are usually higher.

With users retaining their prefix numbers but changing network providers, users calling out will not know if they are connecting to the same service provider or another as the prefix will not “show” anything.

Calls between subscribers of the same network provider are cheaper, compared to calls to other network providers.

For example, calls between Maxis subscribers are charged 12 sen a minute (postpaid, Value Plus 50 plan), as against 18 sen to other networks.

A Celcom subscriber (XPax prepaid plan) would incur a 35 sen charge a minute within the same zone, as opposed to 45sen a minute in calls to other networks.

Enquiries by The Star revealed that some network providers were offering certain solutions.

DiGi Telecommunications said its subscribers would be informed if those listed under their Friends & Family (FnF) package switched to other network providers.

“When a user calls someone who has ported out of DiGi for the first time, a pre-recorded voice message will be heard, saying that the contact is no longer a DiGi subscriber,” a spokesman said.

U Mobile Sdn Bhd said a pre-notification service would be introduced to its customers, informing them which network they were calling.

A Maxis Communications official advised subscribers to alert their contacts if they decided to change service providers to avoid confusion.

He said the subscribers’ decision to switch operators via MNP will not be automatically communicated to those who wished to contact the user.

This has made some users, like engineering student Siti Qistin Mohd Noor Azaman, 20, decide against switching networks.

“Don’t you think it would be rather awkward to ask someone that you just met about his or her mobile service provider?” she asked.

Copywriter Jason Sebastian, 26, felt that it was the network providers’ responsibility to inform their subscribers of their contacts’ service providers.

Tina Ong, 40, one of those who have opted to switch networks, said she was happy to have done so.

“I don’t have to worry about losing touch with my important contacts whom I have developed over eight years,” said Ong, who runs a café with her husband Dino Foon, 54.

According to estimates, there are 20.6 million prepaid and 4.6 million postpaid users in the country.

URL: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...7986&sec=nation

just ask...i have port from hotlink to celcom blue 2 weeks ago,, but now i want to switch to digi..can i do that?

What a big contrast between Maxis And Digi. Imagine if average RM150 deposit ( RM75 to RM300 ) collected from 1 million ( Maxis claimed it has 10 million customers) customers, that will be a whopping RM150 million free loan for maxis.  Just based on the min BLR of 6.75%, Maxis can save bank interest amounting to RM10 million a year.

Really?

Lastime I top up my deposit up from RM100 just for that and they will increase your CL due to possible spike in term of usage.

Pay RM100 deposit lastime when register. I also dunno use for how long already. Maybe 6 years liao. Damn, all I ever received is that promo for phone discount that after discount still more expensive than outside price. Maxis never ceased to amaze me when Digi can offer points to redeem phone and credit.

today this digi dealer make his payment , he is still using maxis line ...

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Added on November 17, 2008, 12:09 pm