Eight Telecom discussion thread

[Dreamer99]

I think earlier on had lunchtime crowd as well. People from Buona Vista to Jurong East take one train can already make the queues crazy...


Clementi?

Affirmative
Perhaps the queues went into Clementi Mall earlier during the lunchtime crowd?

 

[Skyy]

They have spilted into 2 queues. Registered and non-registered users.
Not allowed to chose numbers now

Yes , i experienced the same thing collecting it at Buangkok, Heng i got the email so i got the shorter queue, but even the no email queue also not that much longer. i went at 6.30pm today.

 

[Habrosus]

Yes , i experienced the same thing collecting it at Buangkok, Heng i got the email so i got the shorter queue, but even the no email queue also not that much longer. i went at 6.30pm today.

Couldn't choose numbers as well?

 

[bwaysaikryptonite]

Where to register? Still nid to register for free sim or can walk in ?

 

[superhero41]

Couldn't choose numbers as well?

most probably as more ppl queue, they will stop allowing ppl to choose as it delays the queue. can u imagine some inconsiderate lil shet keep wasting time by refreshing it over and over again, choking up the queue.

 

[Dreamer99]

Where to register? Still nid to register for free sim or can walk in ?

Should be able as ppl are joining the queueing without registering

 

[gapboy]

Where to register? Still nid to register for free sim or can walk in ?

join the non-registered queue

 

[Habrosus]

Eight mentioned in a couple of posts here, no registration required...

 

[Skyy]

Couldn't choose numbers as well?

Cannot choose numbers. Which is a good thing ,the queue moves so much faster.

 

[wirelesslink]

SIMBA increased its Group A roaming allowance to 5GB for $12 plan, and 6GB for $18 plan, probably retaliating giga and eight’s plans

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/HmPuv4tovtPoueYq/?

 

[gaoqikai]

use "network cell info" to check your nearest SH antenna located from you ..
*kidding* *not-like-somebody*

tbh, "network cell info" app looks very lame. Only a big needle pointing out signal strength dBm and band info. Don't even have LTE frequency info. No idea why they only use this app in the FB group, and on that OCW website. There are a lot of much better looking apps out there

 

[superhero41]

SIMBA increased its Group A roaming allowance to 5GB for $12 plan, and 6GB for $18 plan, probably retaliating giga and eight’s plans

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/HmPuv4tovtPoueYq/?

thats good to hear but i'm on the $10 plan, i believe most users are on that too, or even the senior $5 plan lol, they should increase the benefits for the $10 base plan too, otherwise eight awaits me lol

 

[gaoqikai]

thats good to hear but i'm on the $10 plan, i believe most users are on that too, or even the senior $5 plan lol, they should increase the benefits for the $10 base plan too, otherwise eight awaits me lol

true. Not everyone needs Japan/USA/TW, etc. global roaming. With eight, $8 plan after they launch with nearby countries roaming is enough. Plus much better Starhub signal than SImba's own

 

[Jurong640]

thats good to hear but i'm on the $10 plan, i believe most users are on that too, or even the senior $5 plan lol, they should increase the benefits for the $10 base plan too, otherwise eight awaits me lol

I don't think they will increase much for the $10 plan. On the business perspective, they would want to increase their ARPU. Simba over the years has seen steady rise in ARPU.

I think they are luring people to upgrade their $10 plan to $12 plan with an extra 4GB International Roaming. So in this way, they will increase their ARPU and be more profitable to challenge the other 3 MNO (Singtel, M1, Starhub).

If Simba upgrade the $10 plan to 2GB international roaming, more people would stay instead of upgrading. So in this way, their ARPU won't increase much.

This tactic is smart like our fast food, upsize and no upsize difference very little. But the benefit to consumers is a lot, then businesses earn from this little increases.

 

[gapboy]

I don't think they will increase much for the $10 plan. On the business perspective, they would want to increase their ARPU. Simba over the years has seen steady rise in ARPU.

I think they are luring people to upgrade their $10 plan to $12 plan with an extra 4GB International Roaming. So in this way, they will increase their ARPU and be more profitable to challenge the other 3 MNO (Singtel, M1, Starhub).

If Simba upgrade the $10 plan to 2GB international roaming, more people would stay instead of upgrading. So in this way, their ARPU won't increase much.

This tactic is smart like our fast food, upsize and no upsize difference very little. But the benefit to consumers is a lot, then businesses earn from this little increases.

you must be in marketing field .. ARPU is a metric that stands for average revenue per user

 

[gapboy]

SIMBA increased its Group A roaming allowance to 5GB for $12 plan, and 6GB for $18 plan, probably retaliating giga and eight’s plans

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/HmPuv4tovtPoueYq/?

i wonder who will counter simba $5 plan ..

 

[yukita]

I wonder if paid customer can get nicer number?

i did not exactly choose number, but manage to get quite a nice number 988xxy88, my wife got the other number, start with 988 but not so nice.

 

[Jurong640]

you must be in marketing field .. ARPU is a metric that stands for average revenue per user

last time use to. According to simba report, their APRU still way below $10. Now at around $9+, they are growing it as more people travelling out now

i wonder who will counter simba $5 plan ..

Hopefully, maybe simba increase the 20GB to at least 50GB to reduce people porting to $8 eight plan. Then eight can give a good fight.

Circles.life have $5 plans for those who got it previously. But now they don't offer it. Circles.life also not stable now, the company offerings not good

 

[Habrosus]

thats good to hear but i'm on the $10 plan, i believe most users are on that too, or even the senior $5 plan lol, they should increase the benefits for the $10 base plan too, otherwise eight awaits me lol

There are $10 ones waiting to port out already, either to Eight or Maxx. Only the $5 ones are constant. If those 2 start having eSIM, lagi worse unless they improve their local connection.

 

[wwh5210]

Waiting for porting-in to be available.