Just coincidentally the next day, I received email from my company on their CIS promotional brochure. Just like a usual marketing strategy to attract customer with bigger font for discounts and tiny font for their T&Cs hyperlink. I carefully read through their long pages of Terms and Conditions, but ended up with disappointment. None of the deals seems benefit much for existing customer on re-contract.
While I started to do some searching if there could be any better options for me to switch to other telco, and here I stumble upon this Singtel CIS promotions!
Although many of us already know that there will be 4th Telco coming in Singapore, and it's definitely going to be very competitive among telcos here by throwing loads of promotion via marketing strategy, but too bad my contract due date could not wait for the new Telco next year.
Here is what I found for the great deals by choosing to port in (which is a term knowing as switching to another telco). By port in to Singtel, I will get a deal which gives me a better offer than what I will be getting from current telco.
Although with Singtel I will need to pay a higher monthly bill of $61.64 compare to my current telco bill which cost me only $57.32 (with is an additional of $4.32 monthly), I had calculated that with the offset on the extra free gifts, the deal is still worth the price. Let me show you why the deal for port in is still worthwhile after all. Additional monthly bill of $4.32 by choosing Singtel will cost me an additional payment of $103.68 ($4.32 X 24 months) throughout the 24 months contract tenure.
By choosing to port in to Singtel I will get a free voucher of $200 plus additional add on of $30 for online sign up. This will total up an amount of $230. If I were to use this $230 free gift to offset the additional payment for the DataX3 of $103.68, it will still save me some amount of $126.32 ($230 - $103.68). On top of that, I will also enjoy the additional of 5GB data (with monthly data of 9GB), as compared to my current telco which only offers me 4GB data.
Below is the table illustration on the comparison of port in to Singtel vs re-contract with my current telco:
*With additional add on of DataX3 of additional $5.90 monthly top up (already included in $53.08 monthly bill amount). Do note that DataX3 promotion is an exclusive offer, where it’s only applicable when you select to purchase for Samsung Galaxy S8 device. If you were to select others handset, then the $5.90 monthly add on will only be applicable for DataX2 package.
Based on my research and analysis above, I think I will consider doing a port in to Singtel instead. Even though it cost me an additional $4.24 monthly bill, but the higher amount of data suits my monthly data usage. For those who might not be utilizing more than 3GB data monthly, I doubt you may reconsider and weigh the benefits of the plan as analyzed. Although it may seems just a small amount of money which probably caused only a cup of premium coffee, but being an educated financial planner, we tempt to make a wise choice as every single penny brings a step nearer to our financial freedom goal.
Just some out of topics add on, I had invested a portion of my cash on my current telco’s stock, but anyway I have no choice of not supporting the company I invested in. I would definitely have to make the decision to opt for a telco who offer me with cheaper price and better deals.
Being a loyal customer of "Green" telco for about 5 years, starting from a Prepaid SIM holder and upgraded to Postpaid user. It's time to bid farewell to the telco, as they would rather throw more attractive offers to attract new customers than retaining me with better deals.
For more information, please refer to sources from:
- singtel.com > Corporate Individual Scheme (CIS).
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3 deal for Samsung Galaxy S8+
The details of Combo
3 deal for Samsung Galaxy S8+
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