Chinese community who looks into the lunar almanac will phase into the Year of Rat in three days’ time.
Industry regulator MCMC, which failed to resolve the SMS Scam throughout 2006 through 2007, will also get a rebranding, ahead of the Year of Rat, at 5pm today, in the SKMM Boardroom on Level 2.
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According to the script prepared by Amarjit Singh a/l Kartha Singh, Dr Halim Shafie will chair a meeting where repeat offenders will be made guests of honour.
The guest list, a copy of which was obtained by Screenshots, include a Celco, and some of some of its SMS content providers found guilty of industry guidelines, and yet compound remained unpaid 6 months after orders were issued!
Suruhan Kommunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia (SKMM) will be renamed Suruhanjaya Kebakaan Mickey Mouse.
MCMC will be the brandname for Mickey-mouse Club Mickey-mouse Club, or MC-squared.
And in the Year of Rat, the rats will party.
Names on Amarjit’s guest list are as follows, but we do not know who will show up in Mickey Mouse attire among them:
1 ) Yap Chong Pin (Maxis Mobile Services Sdn Bhd)
2 ) Chelvakumar a/l G. Krishnan (Celcom Malaysia)
3 ) Roslan Rosli (DiGi Telecommunications)
4 ) Azizi Mohamed Jennis (DiGi Telecomunications)
5 ) Azmi Daud (Celcom Malaysia)
6 ) Abigail Wong (Maxis Communications)
7 ) Romuald Marappan (Malaysian Content Providers Association)
8 ) CEO of NextNation Network
9 ) CEO of Dubaitech Marketing
10 ) CEO of macro Kiosk
The Deputy Secretary-General (TKSU) of the Energy, Water and Communications Minister will be the chaperon.
Menu for the Rats Party
Here’s the menu when party starts at 5pm today:
1 ) Issues on Mobile Content Services
2 ) Implementation of preventive system
3 ) Revenue sharing between network operators and content providers
4 ) Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
5 ) Universal Service Provision (USP) that content providers must contribute
Gong Xi Fa Cai from the rats
As Chinese New Year (CNY) was on the threshold, SMS Scam 2008 was kick-started, using Maxis 2xxxx-series shortcode. Different from previous version of SMS Scam where the 3xxxx-series shortcodes were used, the 2xxxx series are reserved for the celco’s in-house product.
In this case, the MaxGames Ang Pow SMS Contest was offered on shortcode 22266, a number owned by Maxis.
Originally, this page was prominently displayed on the MaxGames site under Maxis, operated by Malaysian Mobile Services Sdn. Bhd.
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Screenshots started to track it from January 17, 2008, when this blogger was alerted by the readers. I decided to put out a long bait.
However, just as NCCC started to expose the violation of consumer rights over the games, Maxis took down the link displayed on the page, almost immediately. But evidence of misleading advertisement — which flout industry Guidelines for SMS Content, still remains in the MaxGames server
[ Screenshots withholds the URL for obvious purpose. Google and you will get it. ]
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SOURCE: Weekend Mail, January 26-27, 2008
As you can see, the CNY Games advertised on MaxGames site did not even mention it as a Subscription-based product, whereby any gullible consumer who sends ‘ON CNY’ will be billed RM0.50 PER DAY even if he/she refused to answer any question that was sent by Maxis
Imagine… A one-month campaign, i.e. RM15 per month per mobile per month…!
MORE… Did Maxis collaborate on this CNY Games with Ozura, which claimed in press releases that it was the provider of the platform for MaxGames? Was there cheating of mobile users via the short-code, 22266? And did the Mickey-mouse Mickey-mouse (MC-squared) look the other way… as Minister Lim Keng Yaik will be retiring in a matter of weeks?
Read on!