Crystal Ball

“As I gaze into my crystal ball, some very interesting events appear amidst the clouds inside this crystal.

About 30 years ago, we were just getting used to making calls either from home or from the office. Then someone gave us some mobility by putting the phone set into the brief case. That was the beginning of Analogue Telephony. The phone set quickly got smaller until it becomes known as a Hand Phone.

When the need to store information into the Hand Phone arose, someone invented the Digital Telephony. The size of the Hand Phone became smaller and smaller until it can be put into our shirt pocket. This device quickly became known as the Mobile Phone.

As Mobile Phone manufacturers fight to maintain their market share, calculator, clock, music player, radio and camera are squeezed into the little Mobile Phone.

Suddenly the crystal ball flashes excitedly. Sooner or later it has to happen. Mobile Phone users demand the right to choose their own Mobile Phone Network Operator.

Nokia becomes the first well-known mobile phone manufacturer to response to this need. With this new phone design, calls can be made without the use of SIM card. Mobile Phone users can choose their own Mobile Phone Network Operator from any country. Other Mobile Phone manufacturers will soon follow Nokia’s initiative or they will perish into history.

Wait a minute.

I can see you inside my crystal ball. You are offering the first global free unlimited calls to your Mobile Phone subscribers.

Yes, yes. Free calls from their Mobile Phones.

Yes, yes. People worldwide are subscribing to your services.

Yes, yes. Your net profit from each subscriber is USD0.67 (RM2.21). You have few thousand subscribers from every country. Your total subscribers base run into millions.”

Oop!! Is it a Dream?