| Before the age of cell phone technology, calling | | | | play MP3 tracks, film movies and play DVDs, it is |
| Malaysia involved getting through to an international | | | | sometimes easy to forget that the instrument was |
| operator, booking a call and then waiting for long hours | | | | first designed primarily as a phone and this is how your |
| while the call was put through, eventually the call being | | | | phone performs to its finest capability; making |
| achieved at three in the morning, waking up the | | | | overseas calls to Malaysia and providing instant |
| recipient who would be unable to hear what you were | | | | communication with the least effort. |
| saying anyway because the line reception was so | | | | The advent of cheap calls to Malaysia has opened a |
| poor: a nightmare for the caller, the call recipient and | | | | new chapter on trade and industry with a country |
| presumably the overseas operator whose unenviable | | | | steeped in cultural traditions yet forging ahead with |
| job was to put through dozens of such calls. | | | | modern commerce; a valuable source of trade for the |
| Added to the problem of getting a call through was | | | | USA and a great tourist destination. Mobile phone |
| the aggravation of not being able to understand Malay, | | | | technology has made a huge impact in Malaysia and in |
| and sometimes being put through to totally the wrong | | | | fact mobiles are updated more regularly in Kuala |
| number and having to start all over again, this time with | | | | Lumpur than in places like Baltimore or Boston. |
| a different operator with an equally poor standard of | | | | International cheap calls to Malaysia may be made |
| English! Now all that has changed, with the arrival of | | | | most easily via mobile to mobile with compatible |
| cell phone technology. | | | | phones but also calling credits may be used with |
| Now it is possible to dial and speak, just as though the | | | | credits against time spent on the line, against a code |
| call recipient was in your neighbourhood: the quality and | | | | and PIN number. |
| reception of the call is great and the call is cheap. | | | | Always check with your provider to ensure that rates |
| Making calls to Malaysia can be cheap and easy: | | | | are being charged at the level expected and never |
| minimum cost and inconvenience for maximum | | | | assume that your provider's rates are ongoing. Check |
| conversation and satisfaction! No pidgin English; no four | | | | before you make calls and make regular checks |
| hour wait; no hassle! | | | | thereafter if you expect your terms might have been |
| In an age where the average mobile phone can text | | | | changed. |
| messages, take pictures via a super resolution camera, | | | | |