{"id":325,"date":"2010-08-10T19:10:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biatch0.net\/?p=325"},"modified":"2010-08-10T19:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T11:10:16","slug":"maxis-or-malaysia-and-the-iphone4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/2010\/08\/10\/maxis-or-malaysia-and-the-iphone4\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxis (or Malaysia) and the iPhone4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a bunch of notes for anyone interested in getting the iPhone4 with maxis &#8211; quite possibly just for my own reference rather than anyone else given the amount of traffic I receive.<\/p>\n<p>A quick breakdown of my monthly approximate expenditure with maxis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Value 50 Plan (RM50) &#8211; RM0.15 average calls, RM0.10 average SMS &#8211; equivalent to about 400 minutes of calls or 500 SMS<\/li>\n<li>3GB Data (RM88)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a grand total of RM138 (not including supplementary lines).<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, I&#8217;d like to get an iPhone4 while keeping my relative expenditure per month roughly the same&#8230; and since my data usage is far more consistent (not to mention closer to the limit) than my voice usage, I would logically opt for the iPhone\/iValue rate plan with the data cap that is closest to my current usage of 3GB; i.e. the iValue4 plan which ends up costing RM375\/month. This ends up being RM237 more than my current plan (while being unable to share airtime amongst all my lines which is kind of useful since I make a grand total of RM20 worth of calls on average a month). So, 2 year contract multiplied by RM237 is RM5688 &#8211; the total I would be paying for the iPhone4 (assuming pricing remains about the same; which is a fair assumption based on previous iPhone releases with maxis).Good thing I don&#8217;t have to pay anything extra for the phone since I opted for the most expensive and longest contract right?<\/p>\n<p>My 2nd option is to go for the cheapest iValue 1 plan for RM100\/month while also picking up the 3GB data package along with it (since living on 500MB\/month is ridiculous) for a total of RM188\/month. Not too shabby I suppose (I still can&#8217;t share airtime) since it&#8217;s only a RM50\/month increase. This works out to a total of RM1200 increase over my normal expenditure over a 2 year period&#8230; BUT WAIT!!! I still need to fork out an additional RM1790 for the phone because I&#8217;m cheapskate and chose the cheapest plan!!! So the phone just became RM2990. Lovely!!!<\/p>\n<p>For the heck of it, let&#8217;s compare this to UK&#8230; I bought an iPhone4 for my sister while I was there (and in the process nicking her old iPhone 3G). Her current plan is \u00a335\/month for 500 minutes calls, unlimited SMS, unlimited data. She managed to keep her current plan and pay a grand total of \u00a3109 for the iPhone4. This works out to RM545 of additional expenditure over what she normally spends despite signing a new 2 year contract. Her current plan is also interestingly not the cheapest available iPhone4 plan available over there.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: We here in Malaysia are getting screwed over by everyone that has an SP (Service Provider) in their name. Telekom Malaysia goes without saying, but despite the open &#8220;last-mile&#8221; in the mobile telephony sector, it appears that we&#8217;re still getting the short end of the stick. Good thing Maxis calls their brand new iPhone (3G\/3GS) plans &#8220;affordable&#8221; or we&#8217;d definitely be getting screwed over!!! Right? Right&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>So how much do YOU think the iPhone4 will cost here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a bunch of notes for anyone interested in getting the iPhone4 with maxis &#8211; quite possibly just for my own reference rather than anyone else given the amount of traffic I receive. A quick breakdown of my monthly approximate expenditure with maxis: Value 50 Plan (RM50) &#8211; RM0.15 average calls, RM0.10 average SMS &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,108,109,130,133],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digi","tag-iphone","tag-iphone4","tag-malaysia","tag-maxis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}