If today Maxis says "1 million leaving is nothing,we are still making profits", then they deserve the storm that comes next.
Telcos' revenues is only partly made up by the monthly subscription payment. The
real asset and value for any servicing based company is the
number of customers they have. The company with the most number of customer can generate the most advertising revenue, demand more lucrative partnership, potential expansion, lowering operation cost etc etc.
Let's see how long Maxis can stay arrogant.
For those of you leftover Maxis subscribers who thinks that with less customers, you will have better networks, you are in for an ugly awakening.
Do you think with less customers Maxis will bother to aggressively improve bandwidth, customer service, efficiency, coverage from now on?
Do you think with their current strategy of premium pricing they will keep prices low for you (Blabber on about 15gb, 20gb, can you even finish it?)? They will only milk you guys to your death.
Every telco is same. Estimate 100 users in the area, build infrastructure for 10 and hope selling to 1000 peoples. From the average speed 100mbps, drop until 20mbps, till 5mbps and until congested. Back to 4-6years ago, my maxis 3G can reach up to 20+mbps, but today it is a 4G speed. And don't expect them will upgrade your area unless it drops below averange performance or congested. I know this before 6years ago, i had bad signal for my area, and i requested for upgrade, they replied me that they had no allocated fund for this.