{"id":6679,"date":"2026-05-07T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:09:23","slug":"loyalty-or-value-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2026\/05\/loyalty-or-value-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Loyalty or value for money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">My boss keeps telling me to deliver value for the customer&#8217;s money. Similarly, I looked at my suppliers and vendors. My M1 handphone plan sticks out like a sore thumb. At <s>S$12.50<\/s> S$18.05, I get 4G service with 2GB roaming data in Malaysia. For 5G service, I have to top up another $2 to <s>S$14.50<\/s> S$20.05. This is definitely not value for the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other competitors I can get 5G service for a lot less S$14.  On top of all this, I can use my main plan quota roaming in Malaysia, no caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 26 years, I bid M1 goodbye and port my line to Mobile 8.  My new plan now costs $10.80\/mth with 5G and roaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Updated M1 rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My boss keeps telling me to deliver value for the customer&#8217;s money. Similarly, I looked at my suppliers and vendors. My M1 handphone plan sticks out like a sore thumb. At S$12.50 S$18.05, I get 4G service with 2GB roaming&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[609],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-telco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}