Umno Youth today weighed into the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission's (MCMC) move to limit the RM200 rebate for smartphones priced below RM500, describing it as unnecessary.
"It is not needed to have a price cap for the smartphone rebate, said Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin in a twitter posting to Information, Communications, and Culture Minister Rais Yatim.
However, Khairy (left) sought to parry criticism against the government prompted by the cap, pointing out that there was no mention of the smartphones prices that would be entitled to the rebate when first announced.The Budget 2013 speech only mentioned the youths' income that would quality for the smartphone rebate, not the price of the smartphones, he said.
Echoing similar sentiments is Bumiputera Agenda Steering Unit (Teraju) senior officer Norizan Sharif.
If want to give a RM200 rebate, then just give it to all smartphones. The RM500 limit will only make people angry, he said in his Twitter posting.
Right royal info age mess-up
He added that if there had been a plan for such a ceiling, it should have been revealed from the beginning.
People feel cheated. That was not the spirit of Budget 2013. That is why people are angry, he said in another posting.
Netizens though have not taken kindly to the surprise cap, mockingthe rule on Twitter.
The MCMC had yesterday had defended the move, stating that those who could afford smartphones worth more than RM500 were not in the intended category for the rebate.
The commission had since announced a list of 23 smartphones worth under RM500 entitled to the rebate.
Well someone in the commission must be still using 8250 thats why he/she do not know how much budget smartphone cost.
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