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Since the very first second the announcement was made, every quarters are fuming on the extra burden they should bare if it goes through. Here, it involves everyone in Malaysia, even foreign workers who are mostly prepaid subscribers. On this topic, Finance Malaysia has some words to say. Picture taken from bigmacky.wordpress.com In this modern world, mobile phones has become a necessity to us. Some may say: "I can sleep without pillow, or lost my wallet, but I cannot separate from my mobile phone". As such, does it mean that telcos can held you " ransom " on using their services? Since this is called "service tax", did telcos do their part in providing the good services (if not the best)? 3 Reasons why Telcos should not pass through the 6% service tax ? Coverage is suck in certain areas, still. There are rounds of complaints on line-dropping issues. Yup. They fixed it after that. But, the same old problems come back to haunt consumers after awhile. Cust...

Yahoooo!!! Budget 2011 announced that ordinary phones would be exempted from the 10% sales tax . Yes, we can expect that the prices of mobile phones to drop a little bit, although not much, especially for first time buyers. Would iPhone and other smart-phone's prices drops? To be exact, the removal of sales tax is only meant for " ordinary phones ", not smart-phones, as the latter already DO NOT have any sales tax. So sorry for those iPhone seekers out there. For me, this will only benefiting those low income earners. Yet, I strongly agree with it. Instead, the 10% sales tax removal should first be on ordinary phones in the first place (anyway, now is not too late). In today's era of connectivity and popular usage of social media (etc. Facebook, Twitter...), smart-phones and those with Internet applications, was the preferred choice for many of us. Thus, I do not view this announcement as a gift to many of us. What a disappointed happiness for me.