In this new era where being able to be contacted is very important for most people. From the M1 Facebook page, a lot of disgruntled M1 mobile subscribers posted loads of comments on the mobile network downtime during the 60 hours period.
To avoid the problem faced by M1 users (btw my main line is Starhub mobile), I subscribed to 2 mobile services, one is a voice with data service and another one is pure data service. In addition, I also subscribed to Pfingo VoIP service.
So how does all these sum up to my own communication resilience plan?
First of all, I’m using an Android dual sim phone, Ino One. My Starhub Mobile voice and data sim card is occupied by the GSM sim slot, while my Singtel data sim card occupied the WCDMA (3G) slot. With this setup, if either one of the mobile service provider’s network down, I’m still contactable via Whatsapp, email and voice calls. In the event my main voice mobile service provider is down (have configured my voice line to divert to my VoIP number if such event happens), I can activate my VoIP application on my Android phone so my family members, friends and colleagues still can call me as my data plan allow me to have 30GB of data per month.
So if you are the kind of person who need to be contactable every hour, every minute and / or every seconds, you can use my communication resilience plan described above.
Cheers and have a great weekend.
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