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I think we wouldn't be in this mess if telcos had from the start lowered their access fees and made their services accessible to the masses. I would have thought this would make more commercial sense in the long term. Now we have this problem which looks damn near impossible to rectify. Calling it a loophole seems like a gross understatement. Whatever the outcome, the 500lb gorilla wins.

First the toll agreements which loophole for the concessionaires by omitting traffic volume, now this.

Another thing people may not realise is that Proton cars have depreciated at a horrendous rate. In effect, people will get peanuts when they resell.

Here they screw up national agreements wherever peoples' money are affected by tying the services to monopolists. There they forget to add cashable depreciation to the equation when saying we should start to feel-good again.

And there again they cream the national coffers for undertabled contracts while lying about economic performance and doing nothing to help people raise their income growth.

Which remains stagnant for just too many in this new round of inflation.

Meanwhile bung-lers continue to trumpet their bugles of racism, opportunism and machoism.

And they're still scratchin' their heads. Got kutu?

There you go, all in one post.

Typical Malaysian style of management:

1. Speaking before thinking.
2. Acting before thinking.

How hard can that be for MCMC to ask each telco to get a IC photocopy for the customer who register for pre-paid? They have been doing these for ages for postpaid customer, certainly MCMC don't need to hire Einstein to tell them that without this step, people will use fake name & address to register.

What a bunch of IDIOT!!

Datuk Fu Ah Kiow asked public to help reporting the load shark number to police? You think police will do something for what you reported? First they will tell you this is not easy to trace because the number is fake, got "filtering process" one. Next those loan sharks are smart and know all the number from the investigation station and will not answer the call. Lots of excuse police will tell you. Sometimes we the joe public is smarter than policemen in doing their job. But if you try to suggest some technique, you only got scold by the policemen.

Refering to the Star, Datuk Ramli Yusof urged the public to come forward to make reports, adding that there had not been many such reports so far. This are all political talks. Everyone just trying to push the ball around. MCMC said it is Police responsibility, police than said is it public responsibility. Can we as a public say it is government responsibility?

Why must we as a public to report then only take action? why can't police take initiative to scout around, take down ah long phone number and chase after them?

Does the police has to depend so much on the MCMC database if the registration process is so unreliable?

With the phone numbers, couldn't the police starts the investigation? Couldn't they pretend as consumer and call to get loans, surely the loan shark agent has to meet up, thereby starts the investigation from that agent?

"the information to a third party would be a violation of privacy under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998"?

I am aware of such privacy rule, but most of the time I am also aware the entity has the right to release the information to the authority such as the police if it is involved in criminal activities, isn't it so? If not, then God bless us because this place is a heaven for the criminals.

Speaking of which, couldn't the police probe deeper into the service providers database (with the help of the SP as this involves serious criminal activities, I'm positive the SP would abide to the police request. If court order is required so be it, get the order) to trace all related calls that come from the said cell phone? Would this not trace up to higher level of loan sharks? I know the police can do it if they wanted to but (sigh!), this is Malaysia. I won't say anymore.

the loan sharks are here to stay - mark my word ... nothing will happen to them ...

I find it amazing that at this stage, they say there is a loopwhole in the system. Isnt this obvious from day 1, if you depend on dealers to register, they can work hand in hand with any fake IC's.

However, what i dont understand is, why they cant make the Ahlong's life harder. Its easy to find Ah Long's right, their add's are everywhere.

When you have a certified Ah long, get his phone number, bar it from the Celco's. Secondly, all networks have access to the IMEI numbers of each mobile and you can actually bar mobile phones from the network.

hence, you can not only cancel the sim subcription of the Ah long but you can ban that mobile from the network.

All 2 celco's can maintain a common database to update blacklisted IMEI numbers and anyone using these mobiles will be totally hopeless. This is also a method to stop stolen phones from making it back into the market.

there are many solutions, like equipment identity register that can do this. Question is, why doesnt MCMC and the 3 celco's work hand in hand, if not to stop this menace, atleast make their lives very very miserable?

Finally, if the government is really serious, they can invoke GSM-Legal Intercept on these numbers of suspect to track them1 by 1.

I'm not saying its easy but the technology to do it is there but no one seems to used the brains well enough to define a method/solution on how to put readyly available things out these to improve our position!

Thats what happens when you put some idiots behind the MCMC enforcement with little experiance in growing technology!

I have a very good laugh watching the video thrice. I think it is a good sign of maturity when we can laugh at our own silliness.

haha ... it's a good video ... talk about the talent those loan-sharks have in marketing their product ...

maybe the govn should employ them to create a video to educate those mat rempit ...

cheer ...

Me thinks, ah long's biz is good biz. big money. good money to grease certain parties.

Hence, the reason exercise on registering prepaids is not so much on targetting ah longs. but more on the average joe.

Whatever sent on SMS now, they know who to trace back to. To make accountable for. Just need to single out one or two case to scare the public.

Need not do a massive ops lalang.

Fact of the matter is that a lot of the heads of the Ah Longs are MCA branch chairmen or members. Just go to Klang and ask around and they can tell you who and who are the MCA members who are Ah Longs. If the Govt is serious, take away the job from Fu Ah Kiow and let someone that is not "tainted" to take charge. The police could always pretended to be a "customer" when they call all those numbers and then set them up and arrrest them. If simple method like this can be thought by laymen, obviously the police and AG Chambers can do better ! Come on, don't give any more silly excuses as it reflects back badly on them. We are really tired of the social tolls it has on our society. Ong Ka Tin can play all the PRs he want in the papers by visiting old folks, victims etc, but that doesn't absolve him from getting rid of all this menace that is within his control.