Sunday, November 30, 2008

Wireless Prepaid Phones Plan

Should you choose to switch from your post-paid phone plan to wireless phone plan


I am very please today as I have just purchased a new handphone. It is product from Malaysia and it is called I-Mobile. I haven't bought a handphone for the past two years and that's why I feel so excited about it. I was not planning to buy it at first. I went to the store as my wife wanted to buy a new phone. So we went and as we are being persuaded by the promoter to buy expensive cell phone, I came across this phone. So we ended up buying two phones. One for my wife which is Sony Ericsson and one for me, the I-Mobile phone. Mine only cost a hundred after trading in my old handphone. Nice phone though not that sophisticated as others. What I'm trying to say is it does not matter what phone you are using but the main thing that is more important is what plan you are using. Let's take a look into what are the choices.

I believe there are many factors that decide why a lot of us nowadays choose to switch from using post-paid plan to prepaid wireless phones plan. It is a lot easier actually to deal with prepaid terms and conditions as it is all up to you to prolong or terminate the service. The service is given to you on a temporary principle, in short you are the king. If you do not feel like it, you can always switch between phone service providers and retain the mobile phone numbers. You can also choose to let the service expire on its own and you do not have to worry of the upcoming consequences because there is none. This could be the factor why prepaid plan is becoming more and more popular these days. Nevertheless, we need to first define the meaning of prepaid plan and what makes it such a difference with standard contract plans. We will also try to analyze the concept behind the plans and perhaps we can compare which plan is the best one.

Let's us start with defining the term "prepaid wireless phone". Oh yes before that I should tell you that it may shock you that prepaid plans are not that popular in the United States but they are rapidly gaining popularity there. Prepaid services are more popular in the Europe and Asean countries. Ok sorry about that let us go back to our discussion. Prepaid mobile phone is best defined if I explain about the standard plan. Yes standard plans are famous in the US I have no idea why but they actually involve a mandatory long-term contract, normally between 1 or 2 years. As far as I am concern, the fees range from $20 to $35 each month. With that price, you should get somewhere around three hundreds minutes of airtime. More can be purchased for higher fees though. Mind you though that contract-based plans are available for purchases only if you have a valid credit card.

Prepaid mobile phone on the other hand is completely different in terms of pricing model and also value added services. With prepaid mobile phone, you are not bound to any contract. You can terminate the service at anytime or you can just let it expires if you change your mind about the service. You can say goodbye to the typical fine or penalty of $100 dollars or £30 that comes with boring contract-based plans. Though they have some benefits like free weekends and evening calling that do not count towards your alloted minutes, they are not that attractive to those who do not really into communicating through cellphones such as me. I rarely use my cell and I only spend about 60 to 90 minutes on the phone.

A user can add more airtime to the prepaid account at any time by topping up the account. This can be done either through a credit or debit card transaction with the carrier (performed on the phone itself using text instruction or via a third party such as a shop or ATM) or by purchasing a plastic phone card which you can get at retail store such as Target. The top-up card is stamped with a unique code (often under a scratch-off panel) which can be redeemed on the phone for airtime. Airtime for a wireless prepaid mobile phone may have a time limit, for example 90 days from the date the last airtime was added. In these cases, customers who do not add more airtime before expiration will lose their remaining balance, and their service (and its associated phone number) may be discontinued.

Prepaid wireless phones are better than long-term contract phone plans since they are really flexible and therefore this could be why you should switch to prepaid plan. You do not need to have a valid credit card to obtain it and this is why it has gaining a lot of interests from teenagers who lack credit cards. You can just purchase the phone card from the market which is like giving the carrier money towards your account. However you must first purchase a cellphone made to use with wireless prepaid mobile phones plan. The phone needs to be made for the carrier you will be using and please hang on as we will discuss about that in a moment.

Most people are allured to wireless prepaid mobile phone plans due to our human instinct have long been telling us to not to be bound by anything and a long-term blood s*cking phone contract is definitely one of them in the top list. For instance, if you go over your airtime allocation you will likely be charged a premium rate for each additional minute. If you do not use all your minutes they normally do not roll over where you just lose them and start over the following month. There are though certain carriage service providers that have started to learn to take into account changing monthly habits by offering flexible mobile phones plan. There are also those that offers rollover feature, but overall many carriers have their own combination of features to choose from. These plans sometimes can present so many options and contingencies that some people can find it quite confusing; another reason to stay away from standard plans.

Another point why I prefer to use prepaid handphone is because I do not have to deal with credit issue. Yes this is also why other people did the same thing. Most contract-based plan require you to have good credit records. In other words, if you are a good paymaster and you love using fancy and sophisticated phones, you can go ahead and subscribe with standard contract-based plans. I simply do not go for it, as there is possibility that in the future I change my mind about using the product and by the time it would be too late. Switching or terminating the contract before the due date would mean I have to pay for the penalty.

I hope that I have managed to give you a clear crystal view of what wireless prepaid mobile phones are and how it works. Now we can start comparing the pricing models for individual plans, family plans, and also business plans. Another fact that I want to share with you guys is that almost two thirds of all mobile phone accounts worldwide are pay as you go plans. In fact, the numbers can go even more if wireless prepaid plans can be introduced earlier since long time ago when wireless prepaid cellphones were first introduced, the underlying products were hairpin solutions meaning that it took two extra dedicated trunks on the cellular switch to make one call, one for the inbound connection to the telephony platform and the second back to the switch to complete the call. Trunks used to be an expensive resource back in the early days and hence carriers chose to stick with postpaid plans.

As I mentioned before, for users to use wireless prepaid mobile phones, they must first purchase the right phone. T-Mobile phones are leading brands in the UK and I believe it is catching up in the US market lately. Let us take a look at certain packages offered by T-Mobile in the United Kingdom. For the purposes of this analysis, I am going to choose the most expensive pay as you go plan from T-Mobile in the UK. The phone for this plan is Sony Ericsson W880i that comes in silver colour. The price is £99.99 and this slim, sexy 3G mobile phone is superbly fast when accessing internet using "web'n'walk". This phone is definitely the choice for those who love phones and advanced technology items (not for me though lol). Now that we have selected our phone, take a look at the plan where it only cost you 10p per text. You will also get a free reward every time you top up and you can always get a cheaper rate when you need to call your friends or family abroad. These are called Boosters and Passes and once you have chose your phone and plan, you get just purchase it online. Bear in mind though that there are delivery cost as well when you purchase it online, so make sure you check everything first before you make any payment.

The cheapest one from t mobile UK is KP100 phone model from LG. When you buy this wireless prepaid cell phone, you can top up £10 and get another £10 free from T-Mobile. Your airtime can go longer with Booster value added feature and later you can just checkout and with this phone, it only costs you £16.98 to activate and you can start using the phone. There is also an option for you to upgrade your phone plans. I will also discuss about this in my next post. I am particularly fond with the new T-Mobile G1 which has three different set of navigation options.

Now let us go to the United States. In here, there are two popular pay-as-you-go companies and they are Virgin Mobile and Verizon Wireless.If you want to use Virgin Mobile for instance you will need a Virgin Mobile wireless prepaid mobile phone. If you do not have a valid credit card or do not want to use it, you should also purchase a phone card for that carrier. They cost you anywhere from $20 up, and are just plastic calling phone cards used to add airtime to your account. Signing up after purchasing the cellphone is so easy that you just have to call the provider's number which is supposed to be listed in the mobile phone manual. When you reach the representative, he or she will request from you the serial number printed on the phone in order to assign it to your mobile wireless prepaid number. Some providers may automatically credit you with free airtime bonus simply by signing up with them. If this is not the case, then you can always reload it using the top up card. Again, it is much safer to use prepaid mobile phones since you do not have to provide any confidential information apart from the serial number!

It will be great if I can just prolong from here but I guess the time is up. I will though post another one as soon as possible so we can proceed with our discussion about prepaid mobile phones and its advantages. Pardon me, I have forgotten to tell you one great benefits of using prepaid mobile phone. Do you know that with this type of plan you do not have to worry if you have passed the expiry date and you still have airtime balance in your account? Because you can always buy a phone card and reload your mobile phone and guess what, the balance will accumulate! You will never lose those airtime and I therefore I find this as quite a generous plan.

There are also few disadvantages of using prepaid mobile phones but relatively you still save your money more when you use it, rather than paying ongoing billings to telecommunication providers. The call rate and texting may cost you slightly higher than normal postpaid plan.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Switch Your T-Mobile Phone and Have the Same Prepaid Plan

How to switch your mobile phone and still use the prepaid plan


There are times when you feel that the T-Mobile phone that you have is not that attractive anymore or that it is not as fancy as when you first purchased it and you can feel the urge to switch the prepaid mobile phone to the latest one in the market is becoming more and more necessary. I understand how it feels sometimes when people look at your phone in a strange way as if we do not have enough money to get another one that is cool in look. So you have started to calculate your budget for the next month to see whether you save some in order to ensure you can purchase a new one. Suddenly it strikes your mind and you start to wonder whether is it possible to retain the prepaid plan that you have right now. You still want to change the mobile phone though but at the same time you do not want to change the prepaid plan. So how the heck you can do that without wasting anymore money on purchasing another prepaid plan?

The first thing that you need to know whether you can switch your t-mobile phone and still have the same old prepaid plan is the concept behind this whole thing about prepaid mobile plans. Check the cell phone itself. If you are switching from an old-fashioned mobile phone to a brand new one Nokia 2760 prepaid mobile phone, then you are fine. Yes you can always change it as many time as you want as long as you have the money honey. So the next question is how do you keep the prepaid plan then?

Do you know there is a sim card in the t mobile phone that you own right now? I am sorry that I have to ask you guys this question since I believe there are still some of us do not have any idea what a SIM card is. It is supposed to be located inside your t-mobile phone. This is where you do the magic. What you need to do in order to change or switch your t-mobile phone to a brand new cell phone without losing the prepaid plan you are using is to move the sim card as well. Voila! Now you can still use the same account with the new handphone. But make sure that you are swapping to another t-mobile phone or this may not work.

There is a problem though; if you are using just a simple prepaid mobile phone plan and you have no contract, you might not be able to purchase a t-mobile phone from T-Mobile at a discounted price. So how you can switch then from your current t-mobile phone to a better mobile phone without losing too much money? There is a way out of this. Now again I have to ask you whether you know about Sidekick prepaid plan or not. If you do, then you should consider buying one from either Ebay or somewhere else. That should solve the problem to move your prepaid plan to the new mobile phone.

There is a prepaid plan that is beneficial to those who use t-mobile prepaid mobile phone plan. This special sidekick prepaid mobile plan can help you in a way that when you switch your phone, you can have it to be switched over to your My T-Mobile account. The best thing about this t-mobile special sidekick plan is you can get unlimited amount of internet usage. That includes emailing and messaging. Wow! This value-added service only cost you a dollar a day and call rate is only fifteen cents per minute. Now isn't that great?

Everything that I have said above may not be half true though if you are using Flexpay. Please understand that this Flexpay thing is not actually a prepaid plan contrary to some may have believed. If you want to switch your t-mobile phone and have the same Flexpay mobile phone plan, you may have to purchase the sidekick plan in order to make the transition work. You can't just switch because it won't work and if you happen to just switch without reading much about how to switch your t-mobile phone and keep your Flexpay prepaid plan, please come back here and read up until the last line. Don't bother blaming the t-mobile coverage. Call 611 as this is not possible to be done online at this time and the t-mobile representative will be able to assist you.

Why You Should Switch to Prepaid Mobile Phones Plan

advantages and benefits


It seems like the usage of prepaid mobile phones plans is becoming more and more popular particularly in the United States and I believe that this can be considered as a healthy progression. Many have little or perhaps no knowledge at all about the benefits of using prepaid mobile phone and the power behind using the service. This could be due to previously in the United States most telecommunication companies chose to only promote contract-based mobile phone plans. To some extent, I can affirmatively say that it is a smart move to switch from using contract-based plans to prepaid plans as they have a lot of advantages especially if you are not a fond user of mobile phone.

Now let us look into the matter a bit deeper whether it is time to say goodbye to standard mobile phone plans and hello to prepaid mobile plans. As for me, money-saving is my first priority and this could be the first thing that you consider as well when looking for the right mobile phones plan. I choose to stand my belief that when you use prepaid mobile phones plans, you tend to save more as it is very economical due to there is no contract whatsoever between us and the prepaid phone service carrier. More service providers are coming into the scene and the competition amongst them are getting higher and higher and as a result, we receive the advantages. More cheap plans are now available for us to choose from and we do not have to worry about falling into trap of getting free mobile phones anymore.

Do you provide your kids and teens cell phones? Then perhaps it is time to choose the right plan and I recommend you to choose prepaid mobile phone plans. The monthly bills towards having a mobile communication at your dispense with a lower rate are not anymore a dream but a reality. Prepaid mobile phone plans allow you to set a certain amount of minutes that your child can use in a month and for once, you don’t have to worry about paying unnecessary extra bucks just to keep the line active. Furthermore, with prepaid plans it is easy for you as well as for your kids to just go to any stores like Target and purchase the top up phone card with reload codes on it.

Contrary to popular belief, there is a small risk when you use prepaid mobile phone plan. Most of the plans available charge you at least a three seconds billing whenever you made a call that was not answered. Each normal block is around six seconds and you will be charged based on this system. So you have to take extra care while using prepaid mobile phones and honestly, this is perhaps the best time to start educating yourself and your family about restricting the call usage. There are also few prepaid plans that can cost you a lot of money simply to activate them. In other words, you have to choose carefully and it is best to make a thorough comparison first before you decide which is the best plan for you and your family.

I believe that some of us may not know what the heck is top up phone card and what does it mean by “reloading” your mobile phones. Well the concept is simple actually as prepaid service works completely different from the standard contract-based mobile plan. When you purchase your first prepaid mobile phone, you will pay for the activation fees only though there are some plans that offer you free airtime of certain amount when you use their services. Say for example the one you bought does not offer that, so it means you have to reload your mobile phone. Reloading is simple as what you need to have is a “reload code” or a top up code. This can be purchased from retail stores like Walmart. For instance, you bought a 10 dollar prepaid reload card and you just have to enter the code and voila! Your phone will be reloaded with a $10 value of airtime.

Airtime is a set number of minutes provided by the mobile phone service provider and this is how the game is played. Whenever the minutes get exhausted, you need to top it up and again you have to buy the reload phone cards. To me, this is quite convenient. I just have to calculate how much I normally spend in a month, say $30, then I just buy some cards and keep them until the time I need to reload my mobile phone. Hey I don’t have to be surprised anymore about getting a silly mobile phone bill where I used to have to pay over-budgeted amount to phone service provider simply because I was unaware that my minutes were exhausted.

Yes it is unfair sometimes when you think about how some mobile phone companies trick you into this unwanted event. Imagine how much you have wasted simply to pay absurd fees and underhanded tactics that most contract mobile phone providers use. Perhaps that is the reason the new wave has come and I can say that almost 70% of people are now using prepaid mobile phones plans. Why not? With prepaid mobile phone plan, you know exactly what is expected from you in the first place.

Since when you choose to abide by a horseshit contract for your mobile phones? I bet that you have used it for quite a long time till now. And have you ever faced problems with using the services? Sure you had and I bet that most of the time you could only shut yourself up whenever they refer to the contract quotes by quotes. Now tell me, if you have the chance not to be abided by contracts apart from some normal terms and conditions which all products have, and you control everything from spending to everything, would you choose it? If you would, then I prove it to you that it is way better to switch to prepaid mobile phone plans.

With the development of mobile number portability (MNP), it is easy for you to switch from any prepaid mobile phone plan to another network or plan. The best part is you do not have to pay much for it and the transaction only takes few hours. So whenever you don’t feel like the company is giving you a good service or if the reception is not that good, you can just switch in a heartbeat; something you can never do with the usual plan. Well technically yes you can switch, but when it comes to paying hundreds of dollars simply for switching purposes, would you switch or cancel your mobile phone plan then?

I guess it is about time to think more of your expenses especially during this time of economic depression. Think more about other needs than paying phone bills. With prepaid plans, you will learn to control your call usage and honestly it is easy to control. Everything has been predetermined where you don’t have to worry about paying more than what you use. Do not fall into traps of paying something more than what you use. For instance, would you choose to pay $100 a month for 20 new magazines when you can only read up to 5 each month? Hey you still have to pay $100 no matter you read all of them or not. So why not pay only $25 for five magazines which you can finish up reading all of them? In short, you will get more from the minimum rather than just have the maximum but you can’t utilize all of them.

I must say that prepaid mobile phones plan is the right deal as you will be the king when you use it. You get the freedom to spend as much as you want or as low as you want. No one is going to stop you and no mobile phone service carrier will stop you too. You know for fact that all the airtime you paid for will be put to good use. No more worries about letting the wireless mobile phone company take your precious money with force or dirty tactics. No more hidden costs and no more playing by their rules. We should play by our own rules as we are the one who decide what we want and how we want it. Take all your ample time to think and finally decide on which prepaid moble phones plans is the best deal for you and which suits you the most. Remember, by now you should know by heart that prepaid mobile phones plans have many benefits over standard contract-based plans.

Monday, November 24, 2008

How to Find Your T-Mobile Coverage in The United States of America

If you are in the United States, you may find that it is hard sometimes to find out which place has suffice coverage for your t-mobile prepaid mobile phones. Some people mentioned about using one of the Ebay's services where you can enter your desired zip code to find the coverage. Though this function is quite useful, it does not give you enough information in terms of specific areas of t-mobile coverage. Therefore I am going to share you one site that does give you specific and accurate information about your t-mobile coverage. This site is called T-Mobile Personal Coverage Check.

This site allows you to enter specific US address or intersection so you can get a detailed view of coverage and signal strength of your T-Mobile prepaid mobile phones. In other words, you will not just get common paper maps with general coverage information but you will get a bird's eye view of street level coverage at virtually any Unites States address. Now I need to mind you though that most of the time this utility predicts the coverage. But that does not mean it is not accurate at all. I must say that it is 95% accurate in terms of providing you the right information of your prepaid t-mobile coverage.

The prediction made is based and determined on various factors. This map predicts and approximates your prepaid mobile phone wireless coverage area outdoors, which may vary from location to location and may change without notice. The view also includes places with limited coverage or no coverage at all. Their services though does not offer guarantee service ability due to Even within a coverage area, there are several factors, such as: network changes, traffic volume, service outages, technical limitations, signal strength, your equipment, terrain, structures, foliage, weather, and other conditions that may interfere with actual service, quality, and availability, including the ability to make, receive, and maintain calls.

I have to remind you that if you purchased your prepaid mobile phones from other dealers than T-Mobile or an authorized dealer may not work on the network. So make sure you purchased it from only authorized stores to ensure better services. And also in order for you to utilize 3G, it requires you to have a 3G-capable mobile phones. Below is an example screenshot of how it looks like for coverage in Tempe Arizona using zip code 85280:

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It will be great if you can take sometime to ask any of T-Mobile sales representatives to get a better picture of optimizing your prepaid mobile phones coverage. As mentioned before, there are numerous factors affected when anticipating the coverage. If your residence has a lot of huge oak trees, that may affect your mobile phones coverage too. The weather also contributes a lot in determining the coverage. You can find out more about prepaid mobile phones in my last post.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Prepaid Mobile Phones

pay-as-you-go or prepaid wireless cellphone plan


There are many good reasons why most people nowadays choose to stay with prepaid mobile phones. It is a lot easier actually to deal with prepaid contract as it is all up to you to continue or discontinue the service. The utility is provided to you on a short term basis, in other words you are the boss. If you do not feel like it, you can always switch between networks and retain the mobile phone numbers. You can also choose to let the service expire on its own and you do not have to worry of the consequences. This is perhaps the most acceptable reason why pay-as-you-go cellphone plan became a hit when it is first introduced (if I am not mistaken it was somewhere around 1993). Nevertheless, we need to first define what does it mean by prepaid plan and what makes it such a difference with standard contract plans. We will also try to analyze the concept behind the plans and perhaps we can compare which plan is the best bet to go with.

Let's us start with defining the term "prepaid mobile phone". Oh yes before that I should tell you that it may surprise you that pay as you go mobile phone plans are not that popular in the United States but they are rapidly gaining steam there. I will tell you why that is later. Prepaid services are more popular throughout Europe and asean countries. Ok sorry about that let us go back to our discussion. Prepaid mobile phone is best defined if I explain about the standard plan. Yes standard plans are well-known in the US as they actually involve a mandatory long-term contract, normally between one or two years. As far as I am concern, the monthly fees range from $20 to $35 dollars. With that price, you should get somewhere around 300 minutes of airtime. More can be purchased for higher fees though. Mind you though that contract-based plans are available for purchases only if you have a credit card.

Prepaid mobile phone on the other hand is completely different in terms of pricing model and also value added services. With prepaid mobile phone, you are not bound to any contract. You can terminate the service at anytime or you can just let it expires if you change your mind about the service. You can say goodbye to the typical fine or penalty of $100 dollars or £30 that comes with boring contract-based plans. Though they have some benefits like free weekends and evening calling that do not count towards your alloted minutes, they are not that attractive to those who do not really into communicating through cellphones such as me. I rarely use my cell and I only spend about 60 to 90 minutes on the phone.

A user can add more credit to the pre paid account at any time by topping up the account. This can be done either through a credit or debit card transaction with the carrier (performed on the phone itself using text instruction or via a third party such as a shop or ATM) or by purchasing a plastic phone card which you can get at retail store such as Target. The top-up card is stamped with a unique code (often under a scratch-off panel) which can be redeemed on the phone for credit. Credit for a prepaid mobile phone may have a time limit, for example 90 days from the date the last credit was added. In these cases, customers who do not add more credit before expiration will lose their remaining balance, and their service (and its associated phone number) may be discontinued.

Prepaid wireless phones are better than long-term contract phone plans since they are really flexible. You do not need to have a credit card to obtain it and this is why it has gaining a lot of interests from teenagers who lack credit cards. You can just purchase the phone card from the market which is like giving the carrier money towards your account. However you must first purchase a cellphone made to use with prepaid mobile phones plan. The phone needs to be made for the carrier you will be using and please hang on as we will discuss about that in a moment.

Most people are allured to prepaid mobile phone plans due to our human instinct have long been telling us to not to be bound by anything and a long-term blood s*cking phone contract is definitely one of them in the top list. For instance, if you go over your airtime allocation you will likely be charged a premium rate for each additional minute. If you do not use all your minutes they normally do not roll over where you just lose them and start over the following month. There are though certain carriage service providers that have started to learn to take into account changing monthly habits by offering flexible mobile phones plan. There are also those that offers rollover feature, but overall many carriers have their own combination of features to choose from. These plans sometimes can present so many options and contingencies that some people can find it quite confusing; another reason to stay away from standard plans.

Another point why I prefer to use prepaid cellphone is because I do not have to deal with credit issue. Yes this is also why other people did the same thing. Most contract-based plan require you to have good credit records. In other words, if you are a good paymaster and you love using fancy and sophisticated phones, you can go ahead and subscribe with standard contract-based plans. I simply do not go for it, as there is possibility that in the future I change my mind about using the product and by the time it would be too late. Switching or terminating the contract before the due date would mean I have to pay for the penalty.

I hope that I have managed to give you a clear crystal view of what prepaid mobile phones are and how it works. Now we can start comparing the pricing models for individual plans, family plans, and also business plans. Another fact that I want to share with you guys is that almost two thirds of all mobile phone accounts worldwide are pay as you go plans. In fact, the numbers can go even more if prepaid plans can be introduced earlier since long time ago when prepaid cellphones were first introduced, the underlying products were hairpin solutions meaning that it took two extra dedicated trunks on the cellular switch to make one call, one for the inbound connection to the telephony platform and the second back to the switch to complete the call. Trunks used to be an expensive resource back in the early days and hence carriers chose to stick with postpaid plans.

As I mentioned before, for users to use prepaid mobile phones, they must first purchase the right phone. T-Mobile phones are leading brands in the UK and I believe it is catching up in the US market lately. Let us take a look at certain packages offered by T-Mobile in the United Kingdom. For the purposes of this analysis, I am going to choose the most expensive pay as you go plan from T-Mobile in the UK. The phone for this plan is Sony Ericsson W880i that comes in silver colour. The price is £99.99 and this slim, sexy 3G mobile phone is superbly fast when accessing internet using "web'n'walk". This phone is definitely the choice for those who love phones and advanced technology items (not for me though lol). Now that we have selected our phone, take a look at the plan where it only cost you 10p per text. You will also get a free reward every time you top up and you can always get a cheaper rate when you need to call your friends or family abroad. These are called Boosters and Passes and once you have chose your phone and plan, you get just purchase it online. Bear in mind though that there are delivery cost as well when you purchase it online, so make sure you check everything first before you make any payment.

The cheapest one from t mobile UK is KP100 phone model from LG. When you buy this prepaid cell phone, you can top up £10 and get another £10 free from T-Mobile. Your airtime can go longer with Booster value added feature and later you can just checkout and with this phone, it only costs you £16.98 to activate and you can start using the phone. There is also an option for you to upgrade your phone plans. I will also discuss about this in my next post. I am particularly fond with the new T-Mobile G1 which has three different set of navigation options.

Now let us go to the United States. In here, there are two popular pay-as-you-go companies and they are Virgin Mobile and Verizon Wireless.If you want to use Virgin Mobile for instance you will need a Virgin Mobile prepaid mobile phone. If you do not have a credit card or do not want to use it, you should also purchase a phone card for that carrier. They cost you anywhere from $20 up, and are just plastic calling phone cards used to add credit to your account. Signing up after purchasing the cellphone is so easy that you just have to call the provider's number which is supposed to be listed in the mobile phone manual. When you reach the representative, he or she will request from you the serial number printed on the phone in order to assign it to your mobile prepaid number. Some providers may automatically credit you with free airtime bonus simply by signing up with them. If this is not the case, then you can always reload it using the top up card. Again, it is much safer to use prepaid mobile phones since you do not have to provide any confidential information apart from the serial number!

It will be great if I can just continue from here but I guess the time is up. I will though post another one as soon as possible so we can proceed with our discussion about prepaid mobile phones and its advantages. Pardon me, I have forgotten to tell you one great benefits of using pay as you go phone. Do you know that with this type of plan you do not have to worry if you have passed the expiry date and you still have credit balance in your account? Because you can always buy a phone card and reload your mobile phone and guess what, the balance will accumulate! You will never lose those airtime and I therefore I find this as quite a generous plan.

There are also few disadvantages of using prepaid mobile phones but relatively you still save your money more when you use it, rather than paying ongoing billings to telecommunication providers. The call rate and texting may cost you slightly higher than normal postpaid plan.

I will talk more of other great and wonderful prepaid mobile phones plans in the next post. Until then, I hope that you will enjoy a great weekend.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Mymode Network Mobile Phones Readers Review

Useful Websites and Blogs that speak of Mymode Network

Below are those who are willing to share their information with all of us here at Maxis Hotlink Mymode Network in order to improve our quality of life. It is hard to get useful information that is beneficial to us these days. Therefore it is essential to have friends and colleagues that can be trusted. Please feel free to visit them to gain more details on what they offer at their websites.

Used Cell Phones - Add Link
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RingToneJukeBox.com - Ringtones, realtones, Phone Games, Wallpapers and Voice Ringers for your Cell Phone!
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Holiday Options
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Why change to Prepaid
Nice review by friends about cellphones and wireless mobile phones.

Cell Phones Review
Our friend Mr Bujang says that he is impressed with our blog since we provided useful information about prepaid mobile phones around the world. Topics covered in our blog includes how to switch from Maxis Hotlink to Celcom Xpax.

Advantages of using prepaid mobile phone plans
There are many benefits of using prepaid cellphone plan. We look into the difference between it and the standard mobile plans.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Share Your Maxis Hotlink Credit

can you make money from sharing topup prepaid kredit for Maxis Hotlink



In one of my recent posts I did make a slight comparison between Maxis Hotlink and Celcom Blue from Maxis Malaysia Communications and Celcom (Malaysia)Berhad respectively. If I am not mistaken, Maxis was the pioneer that introduced this topup sharing service. This added feature allows you to share your Maxis Hotlink credit with any other Hotlink numbers. Today we will discuss the benefits of sharing our own credit with other users and how it can be used to our advantage in pursuing our objective to make money online with Mymode Network. If we know how to utilize this perfectly, you will not be losing anything and in fact, you will earn more. I am going to emphasize on two words and they are "volume" and "misconception". Volume is in term of sales and profit accumulated and misconception is in term of how we Malaysians perceive the value or the worth of money.

When you share your Maxis Hotlink credit with others, fifty cents will be deducted from your account provided your account should have at least RM5 worth of airtime. Of course, what does 50 cents mean when your loved ones smiled in relief after worrying about not having adequate airtime left. This is a common situation where people start to sharing the credit to avoid unnecessary events such as in emergency cases where you need to call someone for help. At least the person who received it will have enough credit remained until it is time to 'actually' reload the phone on his or her own. That person also will have ample time to withdraw some money from the bank (if at the time they begged from you they did not have any cash) and then return the favor back to you. Maxis has geniously thought about this and just imagine how valuable 50 cents are to Maxis when for example 1000 people share their credits in one day. That is 500 bucks and let say that everyday this "sharing is caring" event happen for the whole 30 days, Maxis will get back RM15,000 profit from there. In a year, RM182,500 will be collected assuming the same figure of a thousand people share their credit balance everyday. Now if we change that figure to 5000 people a day out of at least one million Maxis users, imagine how much Maxis can make in a year simply from introducing this value-added service to the Hotlink plan.

I am presenting you this calculation for one main reason; volume of sales versus price tag. As I mentioned just before I made the example, 50 cents mean nothing to you and I assume you were virtually nodding your head when I said that. However, once you saw the calculation made, you will immediately realize that every single cent is a profit to Maxis.You felt nothing when you share your Maxis hotlink credit balance. Most people ignore this one fact. Most people walked away when they saw a dime or even a 50 cent coin lying on the pedestrian path at KLCC but ironically, they would endeavor to run towards a RM50 note sticking on the floor. Some would even risk their own lives to grab it. Tell me my fellow readers, how many times in a day you stumbled on a 50 dollars note? All right, maybe that was too easy to get a "no" answer from you guys. How about in a week? A month? I can only see two or three guys out there who are lucky enough to accidently found a RM50 note. Even if the note is torn they will still take it. Now let me tell you this straight to your face; the possibility is incredibly higher to find coins on the street. If you walk in the city for at least two kilometres, I can assure you that you will be able to collect at least RM5 or who knows, maybe up to RM10. Now what if you walk for about 10km in a day making a tour in the city? I bet you can finish the tour in less than two or three hours and if you made the tour just after lunch hour, you will be able to collect at least RM30. There is also a slight chance for you to get up to RM50. Yeah, they are coins but they are still money. You get the exercise you need for your body and you also get the reward. If you are creative enough, maybe you can also pick up some used aluminium soft drink cans and later sell them for few bucks.

Unfortunately you may not be able to follow that advise as you prefer to work in an air-conditioned office from 9 to 5 and along your way back home you wish you stumble on a RM50 note. You can stick to that fantasy while our friend apek takes all his time loitering around the city and before midnight he comes back home with a lot of money. He knows the value of "volume". He knows for fact that if he can collect 100 of 50 cents coins he can get RM50. If he is using Maxis Hotlink prepaid plan, then I am pretty sure he knows that he will lose 50 cents each time he wants to share his Maxis Hotlink credit with someone else. I am declaring that this "apek" is smarter than almost everyone else and that included us. I was stunned at one time when someone called me few days ago asking me about the benefits of joining Mymode. I told him that whenever he sell one Maxis prepaid card worth RM30, he will get retail profit of 45 cents. I had even told him that if he managed to expand his network, he can get even more profit. He said that how can anyone join Mymode under his wings if the profit is so low? I couldn't reply him back as I regretted talking to him. I could not take it the moment someone shows his true color that he is a very lazy person. To me, if you can not accept 45 cents as a profit, then you are a loser. How can you make a million when you could not even make less than a dollar?

Talking about being lazy, I do not mind if you are a lazy person but at the same time you are good at making money. I am a lazy person myself. I seldomly washed my own dishes at home and most of the time I leave it to my wife when it comes to cleaning the house. What I am trying to say is it is not wrong to be a lazy person. As long as you know how to make money for living. As long as you know how to justify what makes money and what not, then you can always be lazy for the rest of your life. As long as you know that sharing your Maxis Hotlink credit balance ten times would make you lose RM5 and then you know how to earn them back, it is completely fine with me. My point here is we have chosen the wrong perception about money and its value. We are under the impression that a dollar comes first before a cent. We heard it everywhere people said that money does not grow on trees. Do we actually take that as the truth? No. We chose to believe that money DOES grow on trees. We love the fantasy of picking ripe money from trees. We love to have a full garden of money trees in our own lawn so we can have a nice luxurious picnic.

Up to this point, if you have started to change the way your mind is thinking, then I can proceed on how you can make money from Mymode and how we can relate the added feature in Maxis Hotlink plan with Mymode. We know by now that sharing your Hotlink credit balance will cost you 50 cents per transfer and by topping up your airtime this way will not extend the expiry date. Now what if you have the opportunity to only lose one cent instead of 50 cents? When you have joined Mymode, the only think that you must take care is your Mymode account (now we call the account as MyEcash). There is no minimum amount that you have to reimburse into the account each month but RM30 or RM60 is ideal enough as a new user. In short, you can just reimburse the account every month parallel to how much you spend now to reload your mobile prepaid phone each month. Whenever you almost run out of credit, you can just send an SMS instruction to any of Mymode gateway numbers and less than 30 seconds you should get the usual SMS notification saying that your phone has been reloaded. Tada! Now what I mean by only losing one cent is when you activate your Maxis Activ10 and you register any of Mymode gateway numbers. So when you send the instruction to the gateway, it only cost you a cent. An optimistic view of that situation is so obvious that you have just saved 49 cents! Isn't that cool?

Think outside of the box. Imagine that the 1000 people who shared their Maxis Hotlink credit balance had joined Mymode under your wings. Each one of them topup their airtime RM30. Now the whole group has managed to save RM490 instead of losing RM500 just like that! Apart from that, you as the leader will earn a lot more from Mymode because each one of them had purchased RM30 topup codes. Let's take a look into how much money you can make from these 1000 people. To make the calculation a bit easier, we just assume that they are all just normal Mymode agents and you have become Chief Mobile in Mymode since you already have more than eight downlines. A normal agent will earn 50% from total Point Value (PV). PV for selling Maxis prepaid card is 3 percent from the retail price, and as in our case here the prepaid card is worth RM30. So 50%X3%X30= 45 cents. You though will earn 10% more from total PV, so if you purchase reload RM30 for your own use, you will get 54 cents. If your downline purchased it, you will get the remaining balance, and that equals to 9 cents. So 1000 times 9 cents is equal to RM90. Is that enough for you? No. All right, let's increase it (lol).

Each time you register a downline, Mymode will reward you with RM10 in your MyEcash account. After the sixth downline you brought in, you will be given an option to upgrade yourself to MobilePreneur (MP). You have to pay RM30 though to get this title, however in return you will get an extra commission of RM8 when you register the next person. In other words, you will get RM18 for registering the seventh person and so on. Again, assuming all these 1000 people are your direct downline, the total amount of incentives you will receive is :

First six downlines - you will get total of RM60.
You upgraded yourself to a MobilePreneur - you pay RM30.
Next person you register - RM18.
Total person you register - 1000 minus 6 equals to 994 people. You will get RM17,892.
Your net profit from registering downlines is RM17,922.


Conclusion? Yeah! You manage to bring home a total of RM18,012! So this is how you can actually save and earn with Mymode. Keep in mind though that I am not advising you to stop sharing your Maxis credit. If you want to do it, please ensure you know the consequences. If I were you, I will think twice about doing it. I know for fact that I can save and at the same time I can make some money if I take advantage of the situation with the right way. Trust me, you will earn much more in the real situation since we have positioning system that will optimize your profit and at the same time helps those who have just started doing Mymode. Of course, no one starts as a hero. We all start from zero. I hope one day we can all be Mymode heroes...;-)

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Make Money From Adsense

Adsense is how you make money from blogging : Unbiased Review


Before you guys start to wonder why suddenly I switched from promoting my pay-as-you-go mobile business to making money from Adsense, allow me to clarify what my intentions are and why I find it more profitable to earn decent money from Google Adsense. My journey has finally come to an end when I found the right way and possibly the only true path for me to make money online. I chose Selangor and also Penang since I believe that most of Malaysians that are seeking for useful information about making money online come from these two states. For those who haven't had a chance to know how I started, you might want to check out my history at How I Make Money from Selling Prepaid Cards for Maxis and Celcom. Along my journey to fulfill my dreams to make money, I have encountered numerous ways to earn some dollars from the internet and from my own experience, I can conclude here that there are only two major ways to make money online; from affiliate schemes and the other one is from pay-per-click programmes or PPC. I have also made another conclusion and that's why I decided to share my experience on how to make money from Adsense.

Without knowing what the heck does it mean by "affiliate", I joined this so-called auto-pilot program only to find myself to be scammed, back in 2004. At that particular time, I have lost hundreds of dollars from it and I really did not know what to do next. Desperate to make money, I joined another so-called rich-quick scheme called high yield investment program or HYIP. Again, I failed and lost even more. The company ceased its operation just before I was about to claim my profit. I was too frustrated to continue to find another way to make money online, so I decided to quit and focused back onto my career. I heard someone talking about making money from Google Adsense, but since it was not that popular at the time in Malaysia, I didn't give much horsesh*t about it. Furthermore, I lived in Negeri Sembilan at that time. About 18 months later I moved to Petaling Jaya Selangor. I regret that I didn't move to Selangor sooner than that because if I did, maybe I could have learned more about the truth in making money online. After some time, I had regained the courage to try again when I found out about Mymode business. Of course by that time I already had knowledge what an affiliate is and since Mymode is all about selling prepaid cards and furthermore it won't bring any harm to my existing income flow, I decided to be part of the game. Read on my fellow friends in Bayan Lepas Penang, I hope you can learn something from this site.

Since day one I had joined Mymode, I managed to make few bucks from it. Yes, selling prepaid cards for Maxis Hotlink users is a sure fun job. Whenever someone ask for ten malaysian ringgit reload, you just have to send an sms instruction to the Mymode gateway and within 30 seconds, you will receive an SMS notification informing that he or she has been topped up and you will then receive the incentive through your MyEcash account. It's also fun selling to those using Celcom prepaid. One sure thing about selling prepaid cards is it's a fun job and technically speaking you don't have to worry much about not having any customers. Almost everyone use mobile phones and almost 90% of them are using prepaid cards. Though you can't sell to digi users, those who subscribed to Maxis Hotlink and Celcom are more than enough and you might find yourself (sometimes) not having much credit in your Mymode MyEcash account to supply the demand needed by those around you no matter where they came from; Selangor or Penang. You can also sell to those using iTalk and once in a while you will receive request from those who want to top up their tmnet streamyx prepaid account. Trust me, money gained from being a Mymode agent is good and until the day I found out the truth about how to make money from Adsense, Mymode has contributed a lot to my mobile income.

After some time though, I mean for everyone, you may reach a stage where you begin to think that what you have now is not enough and you want more than that. I believe that is normal for anybody that is "normal". What I'm trying to say is Google Adsense is somehow the perfect solution to that needs. The desire to make more and more money wherever you live in Penang or Selangor. However, I assume most of you have already learned that there is no easy way to make money online. You should already know by now that there's no fast or quick way to make money.

Adsense would be the perfect program for you since you can't make any money from it unless you have the perseverance to provide good and quality content to the public. That's the first rule about making money from Adsense; good content means good money. The more you write wonderful articles and contents, the higher the possibility is to make money from Adsense. Forget all about the dirty tricks in cheating Google taught by some so-called gurus on the net. Google is now a giant in the industry and cheating them is almost as the same with cheating the whole world. Be honest to yourself and one day I can assure you that you can make money from Adsense.

So let say that now you have posted a good content at your blog or website and you decided to use Google Adsense to monetize it and eventually make millions of cash from it. Is it that simple? No, the first thing you should ask yourself is how good your content is to the public. How useful the article is and how do people find your blog. How important the article would be for those in your local area in Penang. Or how would the article serve the needs of those in Selangor. If you have no idea about all these information, then you will never know how you can utilize all these information to optimize your content so that people can find it and eventually appreciate it.

I assume most of you are bloggers, and perhaps you could write better than me, and therefore I assume that you know exactly what does it mean by "niche". When you first start your blog, you have to choose your target audience. For the purpose of this article, let say that you are so fond about baking cakes and muffins. You also know that there are a lot of sites talking about it but none are giving information on how to sell the muffins online. Later, you started the blog and began telling people how to sell and make money selling muffins online. After a few weeks, you started to receive visitors and you found out that most of them are experts in making muffins but they have no idea on how to sell them. Since you have the right information, they found your article.

That is called niche, where you targeted smaller group out of the bigger audience so at least you gain some readership or visitors. What you did is also called creating your own niche. From there onwards, you begin to target bigger groups and eventually target the whole big group. Here is the biggest secret; you can make more money from Adsense when you have managed to gain lots of visitors from organic traffic. Again, the bigger your target audience is, the more bucks and dollars coming in.

I know that some may immediately turn their heads away from this site as they don't believe I can earn money from using Adsense on this blog. Yes, I have to admit that I don't really earn much from this site and above all, I have not earned much from Google yet. But I have learned one thing for sure. I have learned how to truly make money from Adsense. I have learned the right way to earn from it. I have learned how to earn it if I live in Selangor.

I know how to still earn some money online even when I'm travelling elsewhere or to Penang. I have gone through a lot of things and therefore I think you have the right to learn the easier way. Sharing is my priority and I don't think that I would lose anything from sharing my knowledge. The most important reason why I want to share my knowledge of how to make money online using Adsense is I'm going to stop you guys from buying craps and books that don't really tell you how and most of the time they suck. Honestly, many had approached me and provided me copies of these bs and I just couldn't finished reading them.

Tell me, how can you read something crap when you have paid an unreasonable amount of money to buy it? If you can, then maybe you don't have the time to read up to this paragraph since you are now busying yourselves trying all the crap techniques taught in the those ebooks. Friends, tell me how can anyone possibly mastered all about making money with Adsense in just 7 days? A genius? Maybe, but I doubt any of us here is and even if you are a genius, simply knowing how-to is not good enough. Beating the whole system is another story here.

I am not here to preach you everything about making money from Adsense but rather a harder way to earn it. Yes, what I am going to share is the harder way to make money from adsense. The harder way which I am going to talk about is to highly optimized your blog or site with your targeted keywords. This is the first thing you should always do whenever you begin to write your article. For example, if you are writing about how to buy a good bulgarian rose water in Penang, maximize all the related keywords in your article. Try to use it in possibly each paragraph but don't ever overdo it. You won't get anything by doing things excessively. Put your targeted keywords here and there so that it looks natural enough. Another thing to keep in mind is to always provide relevant information to your visitors. Relevant means how relevant the article is to your audience even when the audience came from Selangor.

Again, I would like to remind you all that I am no guru and earning few dollars a day from Adsense only does not make me one even though I know few things about how to earn money from Adsense. Some people had managed to earn 40000 dollars a month just from Adsense. The problem with all of us who has just started is we don't really know how the game is played. We thought that the world is different here in the internet. No, it is not. It is the same cruel world here. We have liars and scammers everywhere. You can get scammed in just a few seconds. You can lose hundreds if not thousands for following steps thought by liars who claimed themselves as gurus.

Allow me to tell this straight to your face (excuse my bad breath); the only group that make money online is internet marketers. They are the main players and what they do is they manipulated and exploited anything and everything on the net. They know how to make you believe and they know how to use that trust so you will buy their products. I'm not selling you anything here (except if you are more interested to join Mymode lol) and I have no intention to trick anyone here. I'm going to share few tips and tricks performed by internet marketers so we can be at least 2% like them. No, we can't be 100% like them, at least at this time. One day maybe, and we are counting days to reach that stage if we carefully choose our first step here to make money online.

Some may enquire why is it we must optimized our keywords in our article. Well, this is by far from what I have read elsewhere and everywhere on the net is the first ever thing that we must do in making sure our intention to make money from Adsense is achieved. For example, if our site talks about controversial song from Hazwan Cinta Tiga Segi, then we must tell the search engines that we are talking about the song. Simply putting the lyric or just the link where people can download the "Cinta Tiga Segi" mp3 song will not work at all. Let the search engines know what your keyword is by putting it naturally in your content.

In short, don't mislead the search engines by writing nonsense. Another simpler example is say that you want to write about where to buy ebook jana duit dari adsense and how to earn quickly from it. Make sure your site or blog mentioned the title twice or more in your article. Let the search engines understand that your main keyword is online book jana duit or duit dari adsense.

Choosing your audience is another first thing you must do. To whom you want your articles to be read? To those in Selangor? Or do you prefer the whole world to read it? If you target those in Penang, then make sure you put as much as information as possible for those who came from that area. If you aim for the whole world, then get yourself ready to compete with millions and millions of website or webpages. For example, if you search for how to make money online, you will get maybe ten to fifteen millions search results. Do you think you can compete to rank in the first page in that particular topic? This is what internet marketers call "niche". If you are new, look for smaller audience. From there you can start competing for bigger and bigger audience.

Please understand that there might be those who are not satisfied when I tell you these so-called secrets on how you can earn money online. These people wanted you to buy their products blindly without knowing the basics. Well, I think everyone should have social responsibility. Be responsible of what I do is my principle. I won't let you buy crap things simply to earn money. Yeah, I admit I did that long time ago when I first learn how to make money online. I was naive, but not anymore since I discovered the truth and how powerful Adsense is. As for now, I am telling you the truth and what I'm telling here in this very blog is only the truth and how I did it.

This is the first article I want to share (no teaching here!) with all of my friends out there who seek the best and cheapest way to make money online. Adsense can be your best choice since it is the simplest way so far (not that simple though). My current business is Mymode mobile prepaid solution but along the way I will share my experience in making money from Adsense. I'm hoping that one day we can all prosper and able to earn money online the right way and possibly one day we can reduce or perhaps eliminate all scams and lies about making money online. If you are keen enough to learn how to make money online, then you better stay with me and I'll share everything I know about making money online.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Celcom Blue Promotion

Celcom Ringtones and Celcom Broadband


I am quite surprise when I looked into my stats report last week when I realized that there are only a few of my visitors came from Pahang looking for information about Celcom in Pahang. I am not sure why this is the case but I am certain that Celcom has a wide reception all around Pahang especially in Kuantan. My cousin lives there and as he uses Celcom, I asked him how well the broadband service is over there. He confirmed that he faces no difficulties though he only use the Celcom Broadband Basic plan. What I am trying to say here is if Celcom has no problems at all with its services there in Pahang, then the only explanation why there were only few looking for information about Celcom is there are too few of Celcom's subscribers there. Now that might not be the case and unfortunately I have no trustworthy source to check that and even if I had, disclosing it might breached the law which is a no-no to me.

Celcom Malaysia has been promoting its services nationwide and from my standpoint of view, I can safely recommend you to try its broadband service. It offers high-speed connection and I can assure you that the service is reliable. I am still trying to get a proper and acceptable comparison between Celcom Broadband and Maxis broadband and once I get the right information, I'll post it here in my next post. As for now, if you are interested to subscribe to Celcom's, then get yourself prepared with at least RM99 (I'm not sure how much the deposits are to subscribe to Celcom broadband, but I'm sure it's around RM200) and same amount will be charged every month. The amount charged by Celcom should be the same in Pahang and you can also visit their outlets to get better picture of their plans.

As far as I'm concern Pahang is the biggest state in West Malaysia and recently there has been major developments there. I visited Kuantan last August and I find the town to be far busier than before (the last time I visited Pahang was in 2006). You can see lots of mobile phone shops around the town which can easily be seen with their blue signage sponsored by Celcom. But what I really want to tell you guys here is not just about Celcom in Pahang but the only main reason why I mentioned the word Pahang there is to let you know the potential of making money there in Pahang with Mymode prepaid business. Since there are a lot of Celcom users though I can't actually figure out how many of them are postpaid users and how many of them are prepaid users, there are chances that selling prepaid cards and reloads for mobile phone can be a good business there.

Have you heard someone quoted that the smaller the group is, the more profit you can gain from them? Well this is true in many cases and selling credit topup for those using Celcom in Pahang would be one of them. The chance is even greater if Mymode is not that popular over there, which means the only method available there to buy or purchase top ups is by going to mobile phone shops or perhaps 7-Eleven convenience stores. If you live there in either Beserah or Kuantan, you might be able to gain instant popularity if you start announcing that you are selling prepaids for both Maxis and Celcom users. How convenient that is to have a dealer around you, don't you think so? I'll be grateful if there's one, and for that same reason I have no reason whatsoever not to join Mymode. Apart from being your easiest gateway to get top-up airtime, it is also a chance for you to earn money from it.

Before I forgot few things about Celcom, allow me to mention a bit on Celcom products. In my last post on Celcom Blue package, I have mentioned about how great the product is compared to Maxis Hotlink. I found out another interesting thing about Celcom; their ringtones. Celcom has wide range of ringtones name it from classical rock to chinese songs. I know, I objected the idea of using caller ringtones to entertain your callers, but I have nothing against using ringtones for your own phone and for your own use. And I must agree that the ringtones offered by Celcom are really in high quality. Oh, if you live in Pahang, then visiting your nearest Celcom outlets should be a must as the representatives there should be able to provide you more information about thei r wonderful list of ringtones.

The Celcom ringtones shared one similar characteristic which is they are cheap in price ( I mean for Celcom users). You shouldn't come up with questions on how to install the ringtones to your phone as the installation and downloading instruction is easy to be followed. Songs offered are actually clips from original songs but there are also few full complete songs which you can downloaded from Celcom com site. Siti Nurhaliza's songs are also part of the list there and this might be an attractive factor for Pahang people to visit Celcom site since Siti Nurhaliza came from the same state (Kuala Lipis). Of course, there are others good songs and if you are interested more into malay ringtones, you can always find them as the site has beautifully categorized all the songs and ringtones. Hey, if you use celcom broadband, you can get to the site significantly quicker than normal internet connection (my cousin claimed this and please tell me if this is not right so I can update this post).

From what I see from the news either on newspapers or on tv, Celcom is actively promoting its products non-stop and consistently. The new Celcom blue is one of them and they also participated in TV3 Jom Heboh carnivals. I knew about this because I saw it once on TV when they show people rushed to Celcom booth in Pahang "Jom heboh". It seems like Celcom is gaining more and more popularity than Maxis Hotlink and I wonder what Maxis will do to counter this "attack". Perhaps now they are planning on something better and if that is the case, then I guess I'll stick with Maxis for the time being. I can't help myself from thinking about the Celcom Teman 20 feature that comes with Celcom blue which has totally outrank Maxis Active10. Well, as I said, I will wait for now and if there is no good news from Maxis, I'll then post a post here to inform you guys that I have switched my 012 number to Celcom.

Till then,
Cheers...;-)

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Stop Using Maxis Caller Ringtone if You Want to Make Money with Mymode

Yes, maybe I sound stupid up there but one of the reasons why some Mymode agents that are using Maxis Hotlink prepaid can't make money is because they are using the so-called Maxis caller ringtone in an effort to entertain their callers. Why entertain your callers when you can instead entertain the callers' needs? Why bother putting the music when what they want is to hear your voice and know that you are not just another apek looking for his next prey? I know, I can see a lot of hands raise in the air acknowledging the right to use caller ringtone but if you are serious about making money online using Mymode, then perhaps you should start thinking about deactivating that irresistable service. Stop thinking about entertaining your customer that way. Stop thinking you have better taste in music than them. And stop looking for more and more ringtones as I don't really think you can impress your clients with your music.

Long time ago when Maxis Malaysia first started their prepaid business, they had been trying to influence the market to buy their products by associating them with entertainment industry. Celebrities were used excessively on any possible marketing strategies; ranging from one-page brochures up to giant sized colourful billboards. Apart from that, they spent millions to sponsor live concerts as well as any music-based programmes on TV. Sure, their breakthrough was when the Akademi Fantasia (AF) reality show came in and attracted millions of Malaysians. You may find it quite funny when people especially youngsters and teenagers prefer to buy caller ringtones from Maxis that is sang by the new artist to those sang by the original artist.

The reality show had absolutely changed the music industry in Malaysia, but Maxis Malaysia derived most benefits from it. People started to switch to maxis from using Digi or Celcom. They begin to listen to music regularly and they love it when Maxis introduced its caller ringtones service. Maxis has been telling us why use the normal boring tones when you can switch it with better music. Wide range of ringtones were provided either from local artiste or international artist. When they first introduce the ringtone service, few are free to be subscribed simply another strategy to attract the customers where then they gradually love the feature and start to ask for more. From only a short clip of anonymous singer singing Adam Af's songs to the real one. From only the sound of barking dogs to the sound of light sabers from Star Wars.

Thousands have flocked into Maxis site looking for their preferred caller ringtones. Apart from that, they also look for wallpapers for their phones as well as some videos. Profit is also made by Maxis from MMS service as people look for nice and cute colorful pictures. Oh yes talking about MMS, there is no such thing as downloading mms from http://www.maxis.com.my/mms and that means you can stop looking multimedia download from that place. That place is for something else and I will explain it later. Seems like the strategy used by the company is really working and ultimately turned Maxis into a major player in mobile phone industry. It's a rare view if you walk around the city without finding Maxis advertisements at least once at each street. The company has evolved tremendously to the extend that now they are now concentrating on broadband service. Thanks to Malaysians for being so generous and so into glamorous world, Maxis has become phenomenal and perhaps at one time had monopolized the industry.

Mobile phone industry is a big market in Malaysia and thanks to Nokia especially for bringing in the technology at a fast drastic rate. New Nokias phones are introduced almost every day and now we can enjoy listening to music only by using our own mobile phone. The sound produced from the phones are in high quality and therefore people feel the urge to buy more and more ringtones from Maxis which are now available in mp3 format. The urge becomes less avoidable to the extend of wanting the people around them to enjoy the same thing. The trend can never be stopped and this is true to the fact too for Mymode agents. Even before hearing your voice, the client might have known your interest and perhaps they can even predict how you will sound like. For example, if they called in and listened to Jinbara rock band songs which you have downloaded from Maxis Hotlink caller ringtone site, they may have predicted that you are a young person (perhaps still having identity crisis) and you don't bother entertain their inquiries. If they heard Tamil ringtone, they may suspect you an Indian.

If you are a Mymode agent and still trying to earn more money from the prepaid business then take my word; deactivate the caller ringtone service right now. I'm not asking you to remove it forever. I'm asking you to think before you do things. You look before you leap simply to avoid from slipping or falling. Don't fall into the Maxis Hotlink world full of celebrities singing their lullaby in the caller ringtone clips. Fantasy is good as that is human's best way to comfort himself, but keep it to the minimum. Don't fantasize about how to spend your millions if you can't even earn a cent. Instead, you can fantasize about how to earn millions or maybe how to multiply your efforts to achieve that dream. You don't have to be too realistic or eccentric as a little bit of fantasy can help you to work harder and smarter.

Making money online with Mymode is not as easy as some agents claimed since thousands of Malaysian have already taken the internet power to promote the business. Therefore it is crucial to leave your contact information and your name on your site to allow people to communicate with you. I still think that Malaysians are a bit sceptical compared to Singaporeans. They rarely spend money online especially using credit card despite the huge advantage of using it online. Most of them that do spend money online are bloggers and those who think they can make money online. However, that claim may not be true when we speak about purchasing caller ringtones from either Maxis site or Digi. Millions have been made by Maxis Malaysia through selling of this service. Of course, the real reason behind it is because they don't realize that they are spending money since the purchase used their credit balance.

A simple tone would be just fine when you do a small business like Mymode. Since millions of Maxis users have chosen to use caller ringtones, simply choosing not to use it would somehow helps you to outshine others. You eliminate the first impression which is not supposed to be there at the first place. You have avoided biased judgement from your prospects. Their mind are not distracted but by all means focus to what you are going to explain to them. For example, say that you used Siti Nurhaliza song clips as your caller ringtone. The client may love the song and wonder how you managed to find the song. During the conversation with you, they still think about the song and there's a big chance that they want to have it too. There might be a slight chance that just before they end the conversation, they will ask where they can find that ringtone. Tell me my fellow friends, are you selling your prepaid Mymode or are you a Maxis representative?

Distraction or diversion is not what you want here if you have the interest to make money from Mymode prepaid. You are selling reload for Maxis Hotlink. You are promoting people to buy your Celcom Blue topup card. What you want is for people to join Mymode so they can enjoy the same benefits from using Mymode. You want people to know the truth behind prepaid business. How you can save your money and how you can earn money from using prepaid phone. Equip yourself with everything and anything about Mymode and be ready to communicate about the business with those callers. Let them know that you are serious about the business, not about what people will be listening to whenever they call you. Not about how your caller ringtone sounds like since the clip you purchased from Maxis is only the first quarter of the song. It's about answering their enquiries accurately and efficiently. Take some time to collect few information from them such as their name and their primary contact number. Listen, answer, and explain.

Another reason why you should not use caller ringtone from Maxis is because you may spend a lot on the subscription fee. The fee is charged every month (if I'm not mistaken it's around 3 to 4 ringgit) and if you are still new in promoting Mymode business, I don't think this is a good deal to go with. Every cent from your Maxis account is worth a SMS particularly if you have activated Maxis Activ10 service, hence if the subscription fee is RM3, then you have practically lost 300 SMS. Imagine how many information you can provide to your prospects with that. Imagine how many times you have lost your clients simply because you have used up all your credits to download your precious caller ringtones from Maxis and now you can't even text your clients. To some, that three dollar is nothing. To me, it is money and I won't spend a single cent on items I don't really need.

I always mentioned about putting your priority correctly so you will not end up losing rather than profiting when you join Mymode. I have mentioned about how some agents misleaded people about saving your money when you become Mymode agent. There are two main reasons why I first join Mymode; to save some money from buying topup and reload card and also to earn some good money when I promote it to other people. I have restrained myself from doing the opposite. And up this point, though I didn't make as much as some 6-star Chief Mobiles, I can still survive and I did get some rebates. I wonder why some people gone into the pitfall of losing money by bending their principles and in return they failed. Only then they realize that they are making money as much as they are losing. They now realize that they don't make money like how Maxis make money from selling caller ringtones.

For those looking to spend more on caller ringtones, I am not stopping you though as my intention is to help those looking to efficient way to make money with Mymode. I am not blaming Maxis either (lol) as their motivation is just like me; to make more and more money. Even if one day I have enough money to kickoff a good business like Maxis, I might provide the same service by asking you to buy my caller ringtones. It's a million dollar business and I won't let my hands slip from it if I do have the chance. As for now, I will stick with my business which is selling prepaid cards for Celcom, Maxis, and iTalk. I will stick with finding more people to join me so they can enjoy the same benefits I gained from Mymode.

If you have questions about Mymode and how to join it, you can always go here to learn more about it. Frequently asked questions about Mymode prepaid topup. If you are not using Maxis and you have no idea about what a caller ringtone is, then I would like to apologize and perhaps I will provide better explanation in my next post. I am currently working on explaining the benefits of joining Mymode and if you are using Celcom prepaid or Digi, then I believe you have come to the right place to open a new path in your life by saving more money and earning more simply by using your mobile phones. Guidelines for new Mymode agents.

Adios,

Admin Mymode Network J&N

Mymode is a mobile solution service brought to you by Advances Mobile Services & Solutions Sdn Bhd (AMOSS). With Mymode, you will have the chance to earn hard cash through selling of prepaid cards for various prepaid mobile phones plans such as Maxis Hotlink Prepaid, Celcom Blue, OneComm, Tmnet Prepaid Streamyx, UMobile, and lot other cellphones plans.

Mobile Phones Around The World

Mobile phones have been used by people all over the world simply for its capability to let us communicate easily anytime and anywhere. The rapid technology advancement has let the usage of mobile phones to be something that you shall not miss at all. Landline phones are becoming obsolete these days though they are still widely used for business purposes and mainly in offices and workplaces.

The trend these days is to have a good-looking mobile phone and also what are special features added to the mobile phone. It is very common these days to see a mobile phone that has integrated auto-focus camera into it as well as the capability to play music and songs. From polyphonic ringtones to MP3 ringtones, mobile phones have been massively integrated all trendy features and therefore it is hard not to miss the opportunities to have a mobile phone and enjoy all these entertainment.

This blog is dedicated to provide you all information that is relevant to mobile phones. If you take some time to read the blog, you may find articles on these categories:

- Prepaid mobile phones plans - "prepaid plan" is a term that is widely used to describe mobile phone plan that needs you to pay for the service and the mobile phone first before you can use it. Other terms are pay-as-you-go mobile phone plan and also flexpay mobile plan.

- Post-paid mobile phone plans - "post-paid" is a term used to describe contract-based mobile plan where you are bonded to a contract for at least a year whenever you subscribe to the mobile plan.

- Business mobile phones - communication amongst employees are important as well as among your business partners. There are many benefits to be gained when you choose the right busines mobile phone plan.

- Smart mobile phones - fondly known as "smartphones", these type of mobile phone are usually integrated with a lot of tech features that allow you to have a computer-like mobile phone in your hand.

- Camera mobile phones

- Music mobile phones

- 3G mobile phones - the term "3G" is used to simply identify the mobile phone capability in various type of communication. The first time mobile phone was introduced, it can only receive inbound calls and make outbound calls. Later the 2G mobile phones has the ability to send and receive short message service (SMS) as well as picture messages. 3G mobile phones can be used to receive and send video messages as well as video calls.

- International phone cards - whenever you travel abroad, it is a good move to get yourself to get an international prepaid phone card where it can be used with your current mobile phone so you won't have problem to contact your business colleagues or your family.

- International mobile phones - Can you still use your mobile phone outside of your home country? I've discovered a lot of information on this question and I will try to explain about it in my own way.

- Satellite mobile phones - these type of mobile phones are just the excellent choice where you don't have to worry at all about the network coverage. You can get reception from almost anywhere with satellite mobile phones no matter where your location is. If you travel abroad, then maybe you should rent one of these mobile phones.

- Comparison between mobile phone plans - reviews are given on various mobile phone plans available. If possible, I will also try to include personal reviews given by the mobile plan users.

-"How to" information on your mobile phone - I will try my level best to share my knowledge on mobile phones. Tips and tricks to be used to tweak your mobile phones are given here. Yes, the information provided here are for free.

The Least Extreme Group of Mymode That Make Money Online

I feel obliged to inform you that we are neither Mymode favourite team nor the best agents too. We are part of the so-called extreme group PrepaidForYou. Our strive for success in making money online with mobile prepaid Mymode is the only reason we plunged ourselves into the fierceful world of internet marketing.

Marketing your products online is a tough job.

Making money out of them is even tougher.

Here we are, dedicated to guide you in achieving your target and dreams to successfully make money online selling prepaid phone cards and top up cards.

Please take some time to learn more about the business and from this blog, you will learn;

how to make residual income simply by using your prepaid phone

how to earn massive amount of income from Mymode business

how to target your audience either locally or internationally and eventually from there you will receive the sweetest reward (money of course lol)

What is Mymode And How to Make Money from It Unbiased Short Review

Mymode is a solution to your quest to save more money while using your prepaid phone service in Malaysia. Major telecommunication providers in Malaysia are TM, Maxis Malaysia, Digi Telecommunication, and also Celcom Malaysia. Engaging itself into this lucrative prepaid business, Mymode has managed to properly established itself and able to receive recognition from Maybank and CIMB.

Many have claimed that the only purpose of joining Mymode is to save your money while using your prepaid service daily. Honestly that is only the rough idea and perhaps the first reason why you look for answers to save your money. Joining Mymode is truly the first step to open the path to earn residual income and perhaps one day you will be able to make silly amount of money like five to six figures a month.

I would like to apologize to any of my visitors if you fail to find any useful information about Mymode mobile phone and prepaid business. This blog is meant to guide you, not to teach or preach you what you must do to earn money online with Mymode. We learnt the hard way to put ourselves visible on the internet. You on the other hand have the advantage to override the time taken by following our guidelines. If you have the crave to learn how to make money online during recession time, then Mymode could be your first choice until you are ready enough to learn other paths to make money.

Can you make money from using Maxis Hotlink prepaid?

If you are a long time user of Hotlink, then I believe you have more than the knowledge on how Maxis charges you for anything and everything. Why waste the money for things you do not really need when you can actually earn money from it? You may not be as rich as Ananda Krishnan, the owner of Maxis Malaysia, but at least you can earn some money from all the telcos though you stick with Maxis Hotlink.

What if I use Celcom Xpax?

I know that sometimes you don't have the courage to try switching from one service to another. You might say that you are not sure about the advantages of other phone plans or network. Frankly say, that unsure feeling is just something you developed inside you due to successful marketing strategy from Celcom. Either using Celcom Xpax or Blue, it won't matter and you don't have to worry much if you plan to switch to Hotlink or Digi. Remember, at this time the cost to change or transfer is still free and therefore take advantage of that. Change and try it for a month and then you can always change back to your original provider. However, as far as money is concern, go for package that offers you lower call rates and that will absolutely help you to earn more money when you join Mymode.

Senarai Nombor Telefon Ejen Mymode Prepaid|Mymode Agents Cell Phone Numbers

Primary Contact Number:
Area Selangor|KL|Negeri Sembilan
012-241-5054 - Maxis Hotlink - Johari

Negeri Sembilan|KL
017-358-3658 - Maxis Hotlink - Khai

Kelantan
014-808-4051 - Maxis/Digi - Nor Ashikin

Johor Bahru
017-781-8114 - Maxis Hotlink - Aqib

Kelantan
012-651-5113 - Maxis Hotlink - Irfan

Selangor|KL
012-709-4914 - Maxis Hotlink - Baby

Selangor
013-388-1572 - Celcom - Azizi

Johor Bahru
012-640-0955 - Maxis - Qila

Johor Bahru
017-769-5277 - Maxis Hotlink - Rozy

Maxis Hotlink SMS Instructions

How to topup your Maxis Hotlink Prepaid Mobile Phones

Dialing command : *111*Topup Pin Code#

How to Share your Prepaid Maxis Hotlink Credit TopUp


How to Check Your Credit Balance for Maxis Hotlink

Dialing command : *122#

How to access Hotlink Easy Menu

Dialing command : *100#

How to check Maxis Hotlink Rewards Points

Access Hotlink Easy Menu and choose options 7-7-1

How to activate Hotlink Super Savers Talk and SMS


How to activate Maxis Hotlink Activ10

Find Your T-Mobile phone coverage using this Superb Checker

Digi Prepaid I Like SMS Instructions

How to access DiGi Talktime Services menu

Dialling command : *128#

How to Reload or topup your DiGi Prepaid FuYoh

Dialling command : *123*(16-digit reload number)#

How to Share Your Prepaid Digi Credits Talktime Transfer

How to get advance credit for your Digi Prepaid Plus

Celcom Prepaid SMS Instructions

How to topup your Celcom Xpax Prepaid Account Using Code

Dial *122* 16-digit topup code#

How to reload Celcom Blue Prepaid Using SMS

Sms command : rec 16-digit topup code

Send to : 2888

How to check your Celcom Prepaid Credit Balance

Dial command : *124#

Sms command code: just type "bal" and send to 2888

Call center : dial 1990

How to share your Celcom Airtime

How to activate Celcom Blue Teman 20

Five simple reasons why and how you should transfer from Maxis Hotlink to Celcom Xpax

Bonus Hello Sunday

With Celcom Xpax, you will get free calls on all your Sundays!

Birthday Bonus Celcom

You can get free calls and SMS for seven days!

Two years airtime expiry date

You can choose either one or two years!

Fastest prepaid mobile phones network

Celcom 3G and HSDPA speeds can go as high as 3.6Mbps

Best customer service ever

Celcom has received two years back to back champion for 2006 and 2007

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