Is it wise to change your phone plan to Lets Talk?

I remember when TM first introduced their Let's Talk plan, nobody is interested because we felt that for most scenario, we'd end up having to pay more than maintaining the conventional home fixed line subscription.

Here is the comparison:

Home fixed line subcription:
Monthly rental: RM26.00
Local call: 4 sen/min (minimum 8 sen/call)
National call (within 50km): peak: 10 sen/50 sec, non-peak: 10 sen/60 sec
National call (within 150km): peak: 10 sen/20 sec, non-peak: 10 sen/40 sec
National call (exceed 150km): peak: 10 sen/7 sec, non-peak: 10 sen/14 sec
Handphone call (same area): peak: 10 sen/20 sec, non-peak: 10 sen/30 sec
Handphone call (other area): peak: 10 sen/8.6 sec, non-peak: 10 sen/15 sec

* Peak hours for national call: 7 am - 6.59 pm
* Non-peak hours for national call: 7 pm - 6.59 am
* Peak hours for handphone call: 9 am - 8.59 pm
* Non-peak hours for handphone call: 9 pm - 8.59 am

Previous Let's Talk 38 plan (obsoleted):
Monthly fee: RM38.00
Local call: free 500 min, thereafter 4 sen/min
National call: free 60 min (inclusive 20 min to mobile), thereafter 25 sen/min
Call to Celcom: 33 sen/min
Call to other mobile: 38 sen/min

Previous Let's Talk 68 plan (obsoleted):
Monthly fee: RM68.00
Local call: free for unlimited calls
National call: free 120 min (inclusive 30 min to mobile), thereafter 25 sen/min
Call to Celcom: 30 sen/min
Call to other mobile: 35 sen/min

Later, TM has revised their Let's Talk plan to a better rate as follow:

Current Let's Talk 38 plan:
Monthly fee: RM38.00
Local call: free for unlimited calls
National call: free 60 min, thereafter 18 sen/min
Handphone call: 30 sen/min

Current Let's Talk 68 plan:
Monthly fee: RM68.00
Local call: free for unlimited calls
National call: free unlimited calls
Handphone call: 25 sen/min

As a result, we can see that the Let's Talk plan is much better than before.

So, is it wise for you to change your home telephone plan to Let's Talk?

If your line is solely used for Streamyx Internet access, and you hardly make any call from your home phone, you'd better stay with the existing fixed line subscription.

If you make calls or faxes out from your home phone, and your average monthly phone bill charges is more than RM38, it could be wise for you to switch over to the Let's Talk 38 plan.

If majority of your calls from home phone is national or to handphone, and your average monthly phone bill charges is more than RM68, it could be wise for you to switch over to the Let's Talk 68 plan.

There is another Let's Talk 108 Plan, which provides substantial IDD discount (up to 80% off) and is suitable for those who makes a lot of international calls and phone bill charges is always more than RM108.

With the new Let's Talk plan, now we can see the savings and the rationale to switch over.

Send a cake in the birthday card to your friends

Wonder how you can mail a 3D cake by post to your friends and relatives?

Pigeon Card produces fancy birthday cards that can convert into 3D objects, such as cake, singer on stage, Formula 1 race car, alarm clock, etc. The video below demonstrates how it works.



The recipients would most probably put your card on his/her working table and remember you always.

Disclosure:

This article is part of a link exchange activity with KC Lau's blog. You can also get this new birthday card plus a link for FREE from KC Lau who blogs about personal finance.

New cool feature in Blogger (Blogspot) for blogrolling

I just noticed this new cool feature in Google's Blogger (a.k.a. Blogspot) today, which is called the Blog List. Now you can see this new thing in the side bar of my blog too, under the Blogrolls section.

Apparently it is an enhanced version of the existing Link List feature, able to show more details about the linked item, including the title of most recent article, date of last update, snippet of the most recent article, blog icon, etc. You can sort the listing alphabetically or based on most recently updated status.

The Blog List works well for any page that has an RSS or Atom feed, so we can get creative to link to blogs, news sites, podcasts, Twitter streams, search results, or anything else with a feed. It is also able to import subscriptions from Google Reader.

Pretty cool isn't it?