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5 Biggest Concerns and How We Overcome Them

People generally want to change their mobile number, they also can afford the fee of just $949, which is much lower than a brand new phone that easily costs $1.5K to $2.5K (and only last 2 years).  There are 5 main concerns and today let's address them:

1. Afraid Will Lose All Data and Contacts in the Old Number

Solution: Your data is never with your mobile number or SIM.  

As for your contacts, you can always retain your old number for a period, say 3 months, and do a call forwarding.  People that call your old number you can still see and receive, and you can inform them of your new number

2. Too Emotionally Attached to the Old Number

Solution: This is like people too emotionally attached to the old shophouse or kampong and refused to move to new HDB flats in the 1960s and 1970s.  But we are now in 2021, why still attached to something that has been gone long ago and no longer serves us?  

Anyway, if you like your old number so much, you can always keep it, just for mobile data use, and only use your new number.  You can also do up a moment for your old number

3. Afraid that the telcos will not allow us to change mobile number

Answer: IMDA governs all mobile numbers in Singapore.  No telcos can refuse you to change your number, it is against the law. 

4. Afraid that my old telco contract will be affected and got to incur penalties 

Answer: We are only changing your mobile number, not your mobile contract.  

Assuming You are with Singtel now and our new number is from M1. You can always take the new SIM from M1 and after about 2 weeks, go to Singtel to do a 'Renumbering' of your existing Singtel contract. 

Your contract with your existing telco remains the same. 

5. Too Expensive

Finally, we hit the nail in the coffin.  People simply find the fee to change mobile numbers too expensive. 

Finally, we hit the nail in the coffin.  People like You simply find the fee too expensive or cannot afford the fee. 

Of course, it is expensive

You mean you expect to change your life with very little money?  We are talking about CHANGING YOUR LIFE, not changing your clothes.  

We know changing mobile numbers is not for everyone.  It is only for those that are serious about their life.   It is only for people that want to make a change, not just lips service.  

If you are going to live for the next 20, 30, 40, or 50 years, how much is that change of life worth to You?  

You know that changing your mobile number can improve 6 areas of your life:
  1. Health: how much more you want to spend in health care from now on?
  2. Better career or business: how much more you want to earn from your present income? Is it $500 more a year? Or $500 more a month?
  3. Better relationships.  This is immeasurable
  4. Better Personality: What is the value if you can strengthen your strengths and weaken your weaknesses?  Are you able to earn much more from this?
  5. More Benefactors.  I know for me just one good benefactor can earn me extra several thousand dollars a year. 
  6. More wealth: From the above, how much can you gain in your wealth and how much can you save from losing less in your wealth?

You know the sums better than me!  Compare this figure to the professional fees. The decision is obvious.

What other concerns do you face?  Share with me in the comments below.  Thanks


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