Smartphone rebate turnaround: MCMC hung out to dry?
The MCMC gave us a few solid motives on why there has been a want for a rate-cap on the cellphone rebate But whilst the industry regulator changed into ably protecting its scheme, the Government did a backflip and removed it > IT isn't each day that I have to publicly admit I became wrong, so mark at the present time, parents. A little greater than per week in the past, I wrote a scathing piece approximately the Malaysian Government’s decision to position a cap of RM500 at the charge of smartphones that could come under its RM200 rebate software announced final September for Budget 2013. This changed into the final nail inside the coffin, for most people here at Digital News Asia (DNA) have been towards the rebate inside the first location, which will value the Malaysian tax-payer RM300 million that might be higher spent upgrading infrastructure and broadening access to the Internet for all the economically-disadvantaged in the usa, not simply 1.five million residents...
