MNP's coming. Huh? What's that?

I told my colleagues (Uni graduates) about MNP's coming. To my surprise I face difficulties in explaining the service to them. They're confused.

MNP = Mobile number portability

Malaysia will introduce this by Oct 2008. Refer The Star.

Why are they confused? Because most of the people think:

012 = Maxis/Hotlink, 016 = Digi, 019 = Celcom/Xpax

So the conversation became like this:

D: Oh, that means I'm using 012 now, but I can change to 016?

P: No, you're using 012, you can change to Digi.

D: Oh, after I changed, I can get the exact same number with 016 prefix?

P: No, you can retain all 10 numbers, but subscribe different service provider.

D: Oh, then what's the difference huh?

P: ...

Everybody said Digi'll be the biggest winner. I don't think so. I think in our population there are a lot 'lazy to move' and 'lazy to understand' people. Unless the cheaper margin's like how the fuel price hikes, they don't think it worth bothering. Maxis and Celcom are not stupid, they'll do whatever they can to remain as key players.

I am Digi postpaid customers since 2003, long before postpaid became popular. Can't deny their service and branding's good. But I'm a bit unhappy with the flexibility of the plans. I know what I'm enjoying should be the best rate in the market. But most of the time I couldn't fully utilise the monthly commitment. I'm still the generation who only call for important matters, do not chat for long and seldom sms.

Maybe the service providers can come out with more useful mobile contents, combine the talk plans with broadband to provide better rate, or convert 50% of my unused credit into petrol voucher, wahahaha...