My suggestion is that Malaysian telcos abolish prepaid validity periods, meaning customers can use their services so long as they are in credit. Such systems already exist in other countries such as UK. It does not mean you can keep your number forever and never use it. There would need to be a minimum usage or top up requirement, otherwise line will be terminated/barred as usual. Promotions and subscriptions will still have expiry date.

There are several advantages:

1. Convenience.
-Use when you need to
-No more line barring or worse, terminated even you're in credit
-True pay-as-you-go system
-Easier for outstation people

2. Lower income users benefit. They spend less credit but had to top up regularly to keep line active. Is this actually fair?

3. No more complications
-Example: subscribing to an internet weekly pass today yet having your service cut off say 2 days later due to validity expiry even you already paid for a week of internet will disappear

4. Overall, telcos have been scared of this kind of offering will affect their revenue. I do not think the concern is well founded since each people still has their needs and usage. These people would top up in order to buy data, make a call and SMS etc, so this won't be an issue. Also, remember U Mobile's 3x validity? On the other hand, the lower income user will have the line barred and cannot use their credit unless they top up. These poorer users are deprived the service and will not reload until they have to or can afford to.

5. This is a chance for the telcos to offer something better, simpler and more convenient to their prepaid customers and a step forward in modernising the communication system in Malaysia.

I support this, prepaid is very confusing and very frustrating to manage as you need to think about your validity and credit.

One cool thing I can think of is overdraft for credit. For example, what if we ran out of credit and need to make a emergency call or something, the telco could let us "overdraw" and limit it to a reasonable amount. They can charge us interest to encourage us to quickly top it back up, but they should turn it off by default and leave it as an option.

Are you even malaysian? Me as a malaysian uses data a lot. That's why so many telco offered much data

I think the pricing can remain the same, subject to market forces. The point being emphasized is the convenience of usage.

For those that top up regularly, validity has not much relevance and their usage and spend gonna remain. Same those foreign workers calling home, I doubt they even look at their credit expiry date.

Whereas for those who cannot commit RM30 per month, there is more convenience and fairness.

There are plenty of committed Malaysian prepaid users. I never used anything else. For example, DG got 9 million prepaid customer, definitely not all foreign worker.

How many VVVIP no. you keeping ? 01X ABB BBBB type ?

looking at the expiry management, it is already a troublesome thing to deal with. especially if u happen to forget the expiry date.

postpaid has no such issue, in fact the cheapest available plan for postpaid can be as long as rm45 for celcom which is not too ex also.

postpaid - no reminder needed.

postpaid - autopay via credit card.