On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:42:38 +0200, Alfred Molon
wrote:
>FYI, in Malaysia with local prepaid cards for mobile phones (GSM or UMTS
>standard) it is possible to make very cheap international calls.
>
>With the Maxis prepaid card I used, phone calls to Europe cost less than
>RM 0.30/minute (= less than 6 Euro cents/minute), i.e. essentially
>peanuts. Was very surprised after I checked the card balance after a 7
>minutes international call.
>
>This was the case with the Maxis prepaid card, but it's quite likely
>that the other operators in Malaysia (Celcom, Digi, TMTouch) also apply
>similar prices for international calls.
>
>Mobile data services were available with the Maxis prepaid card, i.e.
>you can for instance use the mobile phone as an Internet modem for a
>notebook. At 1 cent of a RM per KB pricing was however ridiculously
>high. 1 MB of data costs RM 10 = 2 Euro.
Its interesting how the different mobile operators in Asia charge
widely differing rates for the same services
Here in the Philippines mobile internet is relatively cheap. Each 15
minutes of connection time costs 5 Pesos regardless of how much data
you use. So that 2 Euros you paid in Malaysia would get you almost 7
hours of connection time here.
On the other hand, international calls are more expensive, and charged
at 20 Pesos a minute. That works out much more expensive than Malaysia
at around 30 Euro cents/minute.
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