This post is titled DST coming out with $10 Easi Cards. Too Little, Too Late. by author SoulJah. It seems like they're so scared of bmobile's well-received 3G mobile service, that they seem to be doing anything to stop the outflow of customer's... well (knowing DST) short off actually giving something what the customer really wants. Like cheaper SMS rates. Or cheaper call rates. But no... They just lowered international rates, which no one rarely uses anyway. No lowering of MMS rates. No introduction of new features (No call waiting? No call diverts? What's up with that?). Nothing spectacularly mind blowing that would actually stop customers from migrating over to bmobile.

One thing that Bruneians do is that they would sell their babies, their body parts, their everything to get the latest and greatest phones here. So the progression of GSM phones to newer, more expensive 3G phones is a no brainer. That means there's no question of them not getting a 3G service. Hell, a quick rummage through bmobile's site shows an actual improvement of rates. I'm sure they're just undercutting DST, but it's a subsidiary of JTB here. They'd get out of their way to charge more for a service to screw a customer over. But in this case they didn't. The prepaid service is cheaper than DST. The postpaid service is also better than DST. Hell for the kind of money people pay for DST's post paid service, they can get unlimited calls on bmobile. All for BND$168! How kick ass is that? Even the Mid plan is good enough, with 3000 free minutes, and tons of free SMS for $58. And remember, you don't just get plain vanilla voice calls here. Video calls! VIDEO CALLS!!!

Man. I kinda feel sorry for DST. But at the same time, I'm rubbing my hands together, laughing sneakishly at their current misfortune. But time will tell what being pushed to a corner would make a company do.

(Oh. bmobile? After this glowing review... shouldn't I get something? A phone maybe?)

Posted by SoulJah at 12:14:00 AM

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