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Malaysia Prepaid Mobile: Celcom X-pax

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:37:00 +0000

The X-pax from Celcom is one of the hottest mobile prepaid package in the country. Celcom is one of the major telco company which provide varieties of telecommunication services. The prepaid starter pack is sold at a reasonable price (please check your local dealer).

The prepaid starter pack usually comes with a purple Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card. The Personal Identification Number (PIN) and the PIN Unlock Key (PUK) are printed on the card. Other information available on the card are the Region, 7 digits Mobile Number with the operator code, 013 is for Celcom, the serial number of the card for future dealer's reference.

To get started, once you have bought the prepaid starter pack, insert the fresh SIM card into your mobile phone. To activate the X pax SIM card, make a call, select preferred language and wait for the call to be connected. It may take some time though.

Each reload gives user a validity period to make and receive calls, Short Message Service (SMS) and other Xpax services. Once the account has expired, user can only receive calls or SMS, make emergency calls and check credit balance for a period of 50 days before the account is terminated. Users need to purchase reload and a new expiry date will be given based on the reload amount. Reload comes in Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) 5, 10, 30 & 50 denominator.

Dialing *118# on the mobile phone will give users access to Celcom Channel X, Celcom Broadband, Celcom promotions list and users' account info.

For International Direct Dial (IDD), users may dial based on the following command:

+[Country Code][Area Code/Mobile Prefix][Number][Telephone Number]
For example, dialing a number in Australia, +61411234567

List of Country Codes.

Celcom Xpax also provide services for users to subscribe to Facebook and Twitter via SMS. Typing a very simple command, 'F' (without quote) and send to 35665 on mobile phones, users will then be guided through commands for updating Facebook status, replying Facebook comments, notification on friend requests but subject to users setting for mobile notification on their Account Settings on Facebook profile. For Twitter via SMS, users have to type 'T' (without quote) and send to 29800 on mobile phones.

Xpax also available for Blackberry users by entering the following commands;

BB ON and send to 2882, select BB50 (Blackberry Messenger), BB100 (Blackberry Social) or BB250 (Blackberry Advance)

More details available at xpax.com.my/blackberry

Other than that, there is another service called AirCash of which will enable user to conveniently reload and transfer airtime to friends and family anywhere in the world from the mobile phones. Users need not to worry as the service is secure and easy. For free registration, users may use the following command:

Dial *133# and follow the instructions.

In terms of call charges, Celcom offers a very competitive rate ranging from 28 cents per minute for voice and video calls within the same network, that is, another Celcom numbers and 28 cents for 5 minutes to other networks. For SMSes, charges ranging from 1 cent per SMS within the same network and 5 cents per SMS to other networks. For internet access, Celcom offers a low, flexible and unlimited daily access at Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) 5 per day.

The Xpax prepaid comes with best privileges like special privilege passes to the best events in town, Channel X which focus on new and ultimate Mobile Content Channel and unlimited Facebook SMS, Twitter SMS and Blackberry Messenger.

Please note though, all the above mentioned services by Celcom Xpax are subject to Terms & Condition which can be found at xpax.com.my and channelx.com.my

Selling mobile prepaid

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:24:00 +0000

I am not sure if the title is appropriate but let me first alert you, at this point, there may not be any type of selling going around this blog, and let me also give you first hand information that, I may be selling something related to mobile prepaid services in the future. Please also note that it may or may not happen in the future. It depends, there are so many things in life that I am focusing on and selling mobile prepaid could one of the last thing of my 'to do' list.

Why bother telling if no selling? Well, people may got to this blog looking for some kind of make money selling mobile prepaid scam so, it is better to save my butt from all the trouble. I may be promoting something related to mobile prepaid but not necessarily I am going to sell it. Sharing is the main point here instead of selling, but selling may be later part of it. It's paradox eh! Well, if you like my ranting, go on reading. If not, please go and search for something better like, Selena Gomez instead, if you must!

About selling prepaid, few years back, selling mobile prepaid online is one of the greatest source of income for some people. It's all started when people find it difficult to buy the prepaid card in the time of need, like for example, in the middle of the night where you need to urgently call your girlfriend just to say 'good night, sweet dreams dear'. So, some genius who in their mind only thinking of how to be innovative got this idea of online prepaid. But hey, what in the world is this mobile prepaid at first place? Read on, I will shed some lights.

In South-East Asia, when the mobile phone was first introduced, it came with the package only meant for the post paid users. Once you bought a mobile phone (big size, very thick back then), you would need to register with the network provider of your choice. The registration process was quite tedious as they (network provider) required some kind of documents for verification purposes, for example, copy of Identification Card for nationality verification and copy of utility bills for residential address verification. After making some deposit payment, the process may take up to a week before you are verified to use the network. Basically, even if you have paid for the phone, you may only able to make & receive calls after a week or two. Should there was any problem in verifying your details, you ay want to consider selling back your brand new phone to the dealer. So, post paid refers to use the service first (once verified), and pay at the end of month's cycle.

The rate of charges back then was expensive as there are many types of different charges imposed. There are network charge, rental charge (heck!), even different charges of calls made from either an adjacent area or non-adjacent area (heck!). But no one made a fuss back then as they presumed that owning a mobile phone was like an exclusive rights, so, why bother about the charges! Please note that those charges only related to calls made as back then, sending and receiving text were still under research & development.

Prepaid was introduced to make sure the network provider did not shut down their businesses since people regards that it was so damn expensive to pay for the charges. Some even abused by using the mobile phone to make calls way beyond the amount they could afford to pay, then just leave the network line after it has been barred (no more calls allowed). But on the early stage of introduction to the prepaid services, since it was monopolized by few giant telecommunication (telco) companies, the package introduced were also didn't make any sense. For example, the prepaid would normally expires in 30 days. In order to use the service, there were separate set of payment activation required, say one fixed amount just to activate the network and another amount to enable to make calls (heck!). Should one was not able to pay to activate the network for, say 3 months, then the network will be deactivated and new set of prepaid package had to be bought. However, comparing to post paid, the introduction of prepaid service has brought new level to owning a mobile phone ( as they promoting it) so, more and more people buying mobile phones with the prepaid package. And I was one of them. LOL.

When telco providers were open for competition, different telco companies started to introduced various types of prepaid packages. The different sets of payment of activation and payment to make calls were abolished. But to some extent, rate charges for adjacent and non-adjacent areas were still applicable. This refers to which centers your calls were made, say, different rates applicable if you made call from the southern part to a number in the nothern part of the country compared to making calls to another number of southern part. At one point, people got confused on the rate of charges imposed, for example, the charges for making calls from the southern part to other number in northern part was much cheaper just because the number who made the call was originally bought in the northen part. Nobody seemed to bother very much about it, because there is an attitude of, 'hey! I can afford to use mobile phone so I can pay for it. Besides, it's prepaid, it's cheaper'.

Nowadays, it is a different ball game for the prepaid service provider. Yes, the competition, as always, is stiff, but it is never been a concern for the users. The main reason is that, a very well indirect collaboration between the telco providers with the mobile phone producers have eliminate users concern on the charges. People are now more focus on the types of mobile phone they own. What features offered by different models of the mobile phones are the main priorities. Who cares about the charges? No one. Not until they realized how frequent they buy the prepaid or 'top up' as it is known at this side of the world.

I told you, no selling involve, just yet.

It is all about the phone

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:24:00 +0000

Okay, first the telephone was invented. It was meant as a way of communication between 2 persons of different locations, say, one in the room and the other is at the hall, and the rest is history. It evolves so much up to the extend that now it is getting much much more complicated ways, but still in the name of communicating. It is no longer talking to another person in different locations of the same building, now it could be talking to people of different buildings, vicinity, locality, states, country, continent or perhaps, different planet.

Types of communications have also evolved rapidly. There are voice call, video call, conference call, one-to-many or many-to-one call, sending and receiving text, emails and the list goes on. All that are categorized under ways of communicating. Say goodbye to letters, fax, telegram (?), memo and another list goes on. So, what seems to be the best way of communicating nowadays? Well the choices are abundant, depending on what suits you.

Some may still prefer one-to-one phone call. I say something from one end and you say something from the other end. We need not necessarily to meet somewhere to talk, we could just do it over the phone, for as how many hours we want to. Hmm, what am I ranting about actually? My point here is, the evolution in the technology of the telephone has taken over the very basic way of face-to-face communication. Some even say what is the point of meeting if we could talk over video call, or worst, don't talk, just text!

At some point, it came across my mind that, if Alexander Graham Bell got the chance to be around in this era, he may not be sure if this is the basic concept of the telephone that he invented back then. From the very basic of exchanging 'hello!' from one end to another, now a telephone can even be used for meeting of company board of directors across the continent.

Nowadays, since life moves in a very fast pace, mobile phone is an essential. Without one, we may feel being left behind the progress of the world. From the need of the working class, mobile phones of various features became important tool, even for grandmas & grandpas. Even student who need to attend extra classes on short notice need not to go back to tell their parents that they will not be at home in the noon but instead, sending text 'got extra class, will be home by 8pm' will just do. What kind of extra class would take up to 8pm? LOL.

Can we just do a day without a phone. Well, I did try to 'disconnect' my life from the mobile phone for a few days before. But heck, every single hours, I felt that there is something just not right. 'Something is missing somewhere' kind of feeling. What made it worst was I kept on reaching my pocket for my phone (which I left at home). Damn!, I never thought that it could be that bad if 'the phone' is not around me.

Well, this post can't really conclude anything since mobile phone has become an important tool in our daily lives. We may feel OK if there is no TV or radio around but no phone? You gotta be kidding me! Even there is a radio and TV feature in a mobile phone now so, without a phone, some people say, it's like no life!