Malaysian Network to Offer Birthday Bonus to PrePay Subscribers

Malaysia's DiGi Telecommunications has said that its GPRS is now available nationwide for all its customers, with no monthly fees attached to the service. The charges for this service will be based on the "pay as you use" charging mechanism. With the availability of GPRS on its network, DiGi is also the first telco in the Asian region to offer GPRS for a prepaid service.

The company has also launched a loyalty program for its PrePay customers offering a certain percentage of talk time rebate based on their spending over a period of time. Simply put, this means the more time they spend on talking on the phone, the higher the rebate they receive. A special feature that comes with this programme is that customers who reload on their birthdays will get to enjoy 50% more talk time. This even applies to reloads performed in the span of three days before or after the customer's birthday.

Additionally, the loyalty programme offers a special SIM Guard feature which allows customers to maintain their mobile number and any remaining talk time credit even if their SIM cards are lost, stolen or damaged. Customers are required to register with DiGi to be eligible to for this loyalty programme.'"

Posted to the site on 5th June 2002