Eight Telecom discussion thread

[xiaofan]

I noticed that there’s a ‘Postpaid’ tag under my number at the account management website, wonder if it means Prepaid service is coming soon for eight?

Indeed I see this as well.

StarHub's own StarHub Prepaid plans belong to "Postpaid" as per IMDA classifications (up to 10 lines from all providers )

Only StarHub Tourist SIMs belong to true Prepaid as per IMDA classification (up to 3 lines only from all providers).

Singtel Prepaid, M1 Prepaid, SIMBA Prepaid and CUniq Prepaid belong to the true prepaid as per IMDA classification. But I believe only Singtel has a sizable use bases for the prepaid market (not counting tourist SIMs).

It would be interesting to see if eight goes to the prepaid market. If true, I think it will be similar to SIMBA prepaid with short validity, unlike Singtel and M1 prepaid SIM which can have up to 180 days SIM Validity.

Example use case: buy and throw short term SIM for traveling for local residents, tourist SIM for visitors, etc.

It could be similar to CUniq Prepaid which offers a way for long term pass holders to come in first and then convert to PostPaid plan within one month.