why is singtel is charging sms.mms and call airtime?

Sinkie said:

It's NOT free........users pay for the data plan. In fact, the one who sends and the one who receives also end up paying. Your niece is dumb. For VOIP calls, it is also NOT free. Same, the cost is in the data plan, both sides pay.

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Cerebral said:

Wi-fi.....

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Sinkie said:

Wifi is also NOT free. There is no such thing as free in this fucking world. The Telco is NOT stupid.
It is cheaper, that I agree but definitely NOT free.

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leetahbar said:

with watsapp and some other apps which provide free sms, mms and free call airtime which even include long distance, why is singtel still charging like nobody's business?

my niece who's abroad always calls back. monster in law, her grandma would hurry her to hang up becos long distant call is very expensive. but niece told her not to worry. it's FREE OF CHARGE! and we could even see her on the handphone.

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Cerebral said:

If you intend on arguing the minutiae, then i rest my case

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bushtucker said:

now telcos are increasing the free no of sms and decreasing your data allocation.

i think i'd rather have more free data. most smartphone users here can easily reach 900MB usage faster than using 900 SMS.

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leetahbar said:

with watsapp and some other apps which provide free sms, mms and free call airtime which even include long distance, why is singtel still charging like nobody's business?

my niece who's abroad always calls back. monster in law, her grandma would hurry her to hang up becos long distant call is very expensive. but niece told her not to worry. it's FREE OF CHARGE! and we could even see her on the handphone.

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leetahbar said:

i had a visitor recently. he bought a phonecard. b4 he could use his hp to call after he on it, the card immly showed 0$. we tot it was a defective card which cost him $20 and since we were in exeter rd, might as well went into singtel n checked. guess what?

all the value stored in the card was exhausted by dunno what nonsense download which my pal didnt even ask for.

so people, pls be alerted to how singtel can trick your foreign visiting pal.

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frenchbriefs said:

anyone wonder why HDB flats dont have free wifi?why town council dont provide free wifi points?

i dont see the fucking reason why in such a densely populated country every single flat needs to have its own broadband or 300mb/s fibre,i mean seriously?just put 5 or 6 wifi spots in the whole hdb flat,and the whole block share the monthly bill of $400 a month,less than $5 per household.

libraries have free wifi,hostels have free wifi,hotels have free wifi,casinos have free wifi.obviously wifi infrastructure is big enough to cover entire buildings.

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Cerebral said:

Not when you stream a lot of movies or download them. Sure fight one

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johnny333 said:

I don't understand why she doesn't use cheaper methods like Skype which is available if you have an internet connection
I use it to contact my friends who are overseas.

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bushtucker said:

you should have alerted your friend to switch off mobile data if his sole intention and purpose of the sim card is to make/receive calls and send SMS.

Ad hoc data charges are very costly. If your friend really needed to use the internet, he should have signed up for the data plan on the singtel hi-card (prepaid card).

I believe it is $7 for 1GB for 7 days. He would still have $13 for calls/sms.

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