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JAYSCS said:
Simba is doing all these, increasing data, call minutes and SMS, now even roll-over.
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Cause they can, and as long as not all the users are fully maxing out their entitlement, they are in the green

Using cloud storage providers or disk quota in general as another example.
Just because you purchase 2 TB of cloud storage dosen't mean they really lock down 2TB of space for you.
If you only use 100GB, they are happy since they can use that other 1.9TB on another customer first.
Once you start using more, then other "allocated" space will be assigned to you.
 
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JAYSCS said:
I wonder why Simba is doing all these, increasing data, call minutes and SMS, now even roll-over. It is kinda like making the competition to a level that other telcos definitely cannot match, especially Eight Mobile which always try to follow suit.

Of cos in term of speed, it remains as the lowest rung, which is the edge of others. But it seems to be pointing that the approval of the taking over may not be hopeful, hence the desperate measure now.
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As long local speed is slow. They offer 2000GB data also cant be use. There goes same with sms 10000 if given
 
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twosix said:
They dun have much to lose. Not many will utilize all the data. Is more of a feel good factor, an insurance to end users. If I need it is there.
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Definitely they can afford to do it but why now as there is no urgency to do it since the big game will only start after taking over M1? That is why I feel something must have not be going on as per planned, which is of cos good news for us as users. 😁

Roll over usage is definitely a measure that will affect Simba itself than competitors, most higher tier plans users will very highly likely downgrade their plans to the basic plans, given that they can save up their roaming data for future use.
 
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JAYSCS said:
Roll over usage is definitely a measure that will affect Simba itself than competitors, most higher tier plans users will very highly likely downgrade their plans to the basic plans, given that they can save up their roaming data for future use.
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Maybe the rollover feature will encourage some SIMBA subscribers to switch from higher to lower cost plans. But that phenomenon could be perfectly acceptable if SIMBA wins at least enough new customers. IMDA reported there were about 9.8 million mobile lines in June, 2025. About 86% of them are not yet SIMBA lines. That's a lot of room for growth.

Also bear in mind that SIMBA probably has a much greater percentage of their customer base already on their entry S$5 (senior) and S$10 plans than other MNOs do, especially the MNOs beginning with the letter S. I think it's a smart move competitively. The other MNOs face a fairly stark choice. If they even partially match SIMBA's rollover feature — for example, with a 3 month rollover instead of 6 months — they'll wipe out a lot of the highly profitable overage charges they're currently collecting from a subset of their subscribers and encourage their significantly higher spending customer base to downgrade to lower cost plans. If they don't match, they'll lose some more customers to SIMBA. If the MVNOs match, they'll pull some higher spending MNO subscribers into lower cost MVNO deals. SIMBA would be happy with any of these outcomes, or any combination.
 
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If you port in from other telco to simba, do you get a usable simba temp number before the port in?

Otherwise, if port in fail, you alrdy paid for 1 mth, just wasted?
 
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Habrosus said:
I believe they'll ask you to go check with the donor telco then get back to them when settled.
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Eight and every other telco has a temp number once you signup n pay initial month. If port in rejected, temp number if yours to use for that mth since u alrdy paid for it. If accepted, next day temp number becomes your port in number.
 
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CanberraRamenFloor said:
Eight and every other telco has a temp number once you signup n pay initial month. If port in rejected, temp number if yours to use for that mth since u alrdy paid for it. If accepted, next day temp number becomes your port in number.
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Nope. Singtel didn't give me a temporary number. Singtel the big red one, mind you.

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Wont cheat means what? You alrdy paid for 1mth but you don't even have a working number if port in rejected
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The onus is upon us to make sure our line is free from any obligation before porting. It's on us to go chase our donor telco, and that I did, until it's solved and I got back to Singtel to go ahead with the process again.

Cheat? :unsure:

Edit : Lo and behold, I forgot to remind that with Singtel there's already a year's contract tied up.
 
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How to see the rollover? My app only shows as my plan entitlements reset on the first instead of reset at the start of new cycle
 
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Habrosus said:
Nope. Singtel didn't give me a temporary number. Singtel the big red one, mind you.
The onus is upon us to make sure our line is free from any obligation before porting. It's on us to go chase our donor telco, and that I did, until it's solved and I got back to Singtel to go ahead with the process again.
Cheat?
:unsure:
Edit : Lo and behold, I forgot to remind that with Singtel there's already a year's contract tied up.
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I am thinking of gg gomo or the red one. keep 1 simba line kao liao.
🤣😂




Life is v short. Ai song song kao tuas & Changi.
 
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