Pre-Paid Mobile Phone Users Beware - Big Brother Is Watching You!
To all pre-paid mobile phone users, the government, bent on knowing who you are and to whom you send your billions of SMS and crank calls, sends you a not so friendly reminder. Ignore this at your own peril.
The Government will not grant further extension to the Dec 15 deadline to register pre-paid mobile phones, Energy, Water and Communications Deputy Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said Thursday. He said the Government was serious in disconnecting the pre-paid phone lines of mobile phone users after the deadline expired. Of the 17.6 million pre-paid mobile phone users, only five million have registered so far, he said.
Shaziman said after the deadline lapsed, pre-paid mobile phone users who still have not registered would be given 14 days to only receive calls and make emergency calls before the line was cut-off. He said the public have sufficient time to register as the registration exercise started in October last year and the deadline was extended from June 30 to Dec 15. Shaziman urged mobile phone users not to wait till the last minute to register.
He said the registration would enable the Government to have a database for pre-paid mobile phone users and to prevent the pre-paid service from being abused for unhealthy purposes like spreading slanders. Pre-paid phone users can register at the service providing centres, agents and accredited suppliers. Telecommunication companies are also providing various incentives including cost-free calls to those who registered, he said. Shaziman also urged telecommunication companies to use their market study on the pre-paid service users demography to reach out to the target groups.
So friends, the time has come to either meekly comply and register as ordered by Big Brother or push your luck and hope that the other 12.6 million stubborn users like you refuse to do so. If such a large number don't register will disconnecting their lines be such an easy task? Well there is only one way to find out and that's after D-Day (Disconnection-Day?) 15th December 2006.
The Government will not grant further extension to the Dec 15 deadline to register pre-paid mobile phones, Energy, Water and Communications Deputy Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said Thursday. He said the Government was serious in disconnecting the pre-paid phone lines of mobile phone users after the deadline expired. Of the 17.6 million pre-paid mobile phone users, only five million have registered so far, he said.
Shaziman said after the deadline lapsed, pre-paid mobile phone users who still have not registered would be given 14 days to only receive calls and make emergency calls before the line was cut-off. He said the public have sufficient time to register as the registration exercise started in October last year and the deadline was extended from June 30 to Dec 15. Shaziman urged mobile phone users not to wait till the last minute to register.
He said the registration would enable the Government to have a database for pre-paid mobile phone users and to prevent the pre-paid service from being abused for unhealthy purposes like spreading slanders. Pre-paid phone users can register at the service providing centres, agents and accredited suppliers. Telecommunication companies are also providing various incentives including cost-free calls to those who registered, he said. Shaziman also urged telecommunication companies to use their market study on the pre-paid service users demography to reach out to the target groups.
So friends, the time has come to either meekly comply and register as ordered by Big Brother or push your luck and hope that the other 12.6 million stubborn users like you refuse to do so. If such a large number don't register will disconnecting their lines be such an easy task? Well there is only one way to find out and that's after D-Day (Disconnection-Day?) 15th December 2006.
posted by The Malaysian. at 7/20/2006 01:10:00 PM
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