5000+ opt for smartphone rebate; RM500 price cap removed (Updated)
Thousands check in in the first 12 hours of offer Cabinet concurs to take away RM500 rate cap NEARLY 5,500 human beings from ages 21 to 30 registered for the Youth Communications Package (YCP) which offers an RM200 (US$65) rebate for the purchase of smartphones, as at 7pm on Jan 1, the primary day of the offer, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) stated in a declaration. The scheme, which became introduced as a part of the national price range, is being applied via seven telecommunications corporations: Celcom, Clixster, DiGi, Maxis, Tune Talk, U Mobile and YTL Communications; and coordinated by the MCMC. >“We are grateful and pleased by way of the general public guide for this scheme,” stated MCMC chairman Dato' Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi. “This overwhelming reaction indicates that humans, in particular youths, are prepared to move into the ICT age and be given the world of Internet generation improvement." UPDATE: Meanwhile, Information, Cul...