PHONE EGO

[marasinhe]

I have noticed something interesting thing about how people react to the calls by just checking the number. When you call to a person with HUTCH ,AIRTEL the response you get is quite disappointing. I mean there is a high probability that they would not answer you at all But if you call by MOBITEL or DIALOG there is more chance to get answered to your call particularly to the DIALOG number.Actually a friend of mine told me this phenomena several years ago.but I didnt believe him first and just laughed to his theory. but after that I was bit concern of that and tried this out with using several numbers time to time. with several experience I had to believe him correct.To make a long explanation short theres a thing called "Phone ego" with some people. They believe high end people use DIALOG and Low end use other networks.Im not quite sure of this but you can try it yourself. Next time if you want to call an important person or proffessional person it is better to call from a DIALOG number, better old 777 number if you have any.Like to hear your comments.

 

[hodakolla]

BUMPER

 

[Johnnie_Walker]

Agreed

 

[CGW]

Agreed

 

[BLACKLIST_MEMBER]

That's true. Adu kule number walin ena ewa man ussanneth na.

True caller modified එකක් හදන්න ඕන phone number එක යටින් කුලේ වැටෙන්න

ගොවි, රදළ, පදූ, රොඩී, etc

එතකොට උදේ පාන්දරම පද්දෙක් කතා කරොත් බනින්න පුළුවන්. Or automatically block වෙන්න හදන්න පුළුවන්

What do you think @Hamu mahaththaya1

BTW number portability ආවම ඕකට කෙළ වෙනවා.

Airtel numbers තිබුණ ට උන් dialog වෙන්න පුළුවන්

 

[Gaash]

Agreed.

 

[meeka]

Dialog 077 and Mobitel 071 හැර අනිත් ඒවත් අඩු කුලේ (076, 070)

 

[ncpasan]

haha have never experienced such a thing

 

[Solo Rider]

wealth, ethnicity, skin colour, caste, school, AL stream, university, job, province, dress code, vehicle, engine capacity
& now, phone number​

discrimination at it's best

 

[abc321]

Even I get little suspicious when I get a call from unknown hutch / airtel number. It's more about the authenticity of the caller rather than discrimination / ego.most ppl use those numbers as a secondary number to be used for various discrete purposes.more than everything there is a perception that hutch/ airtel numbers could be purchased easily with fake identities/no identity

 

[Kavindu1221]

I have noticed something interesting thing about how people react to the calls by just checking the number. When you call to a person with HUTCH ,AIRTEL the response you get is quite disappointing. I mean there is a high probability that they would not answer you at all But if you call by MOBITEL or DIALOG there is more chance to get answered to your call particularly to the DIALOG number.Actually a friend of mine told me this phenomena several years ago.but I didnt believe him first and just laughed to his theory. but after that I was bit concern of that and tried this out with using several numbers time to time. with several experience I had to believe him correct.To make a long explanation short theres a thing called "Phone ego" with some people. They believe high end people use DIALOG and Low end use other networks.Im not quite sure of this but you can try it yourself. Next time if you want to call an important person or proffessional person it is better to call from a DIALOG number, better old 777 number if you have any.Like to hear your comments.

oka mobile network walath thiyena deyak.

VIP numbers waladi price eka depend wenneth me widiyata.
777 > 77 > 76 > 74 > 71 > 70 > 72 > 78 > 75

 

[senewimala1988]

mama iskole yana kaale ape sir kenek ge number ekak 0776 ekak dekala, mama ahuwa kattiya inna thena meka prepaid neda kiyala. kollo tika and sir hina welaa kivva kiyapanko owa haiyen kiyanna epaa kiyala. e kaale prepaid aduma kule scene eke thibila thiyenne (before 2004)

 

[kevin_levin]

Reason
ඔබ තවමත් වෙනත් ජාල වලට කෝල් ගන්න සල්ලි ගෙවනවාද?
නොමිලේ ඕනෑම ජාලයකට unlimited calls, UNLIMITED social media සහ අමතර GB 30ක ඩේටා දැන් රු.749 කට! මේ සමගම A2A SMS 1000, දේශීය SMS 50 ක් දින 30 ක් සදහා. දැන්ම රු.749 රීලෝඩ් කරන්න. *SMS STOP to 753816234

 

[JilbuwaT]

Agreed. and experiencing the same.

 

[Kavindu1221]

Reason
ඔබ තවමත් වෙනත් ජාල වලට කෝල් ගන්න සල්ලි ගෙවනවාද?
නොමිලේ ඕනෑම ජාලයකට unlimited calls, UNLIMITED social media සහ අමතර GB 30ක ඩේටා දැන් රු.749 කට! මේ සමගම A2A SMS 1000, දේශීය SMS 50 ක් දින 30 ක් සදහා. දැන්ම රු.749 රීලෝඩ් කරන්න. *SMS STOP to 753816234

airtel walata thamyi watinakama aduma number series eka thiyenne.
lankawe me weddi inna ekama failed mobile network eka kiyalath hithanna puluwan.

 

[_HeRo_]

True ban ...mage address book eke hutch number 2kata wada na

 

[wqe123]

ඩයලොග් 0777 නම්බර් එකක සාඩම්බර හිමිකරුවෙක් වෙමි.....
සැරෙන් සැරේට සිග්නල් නම් නෑ... ඉන්ටර්නෙට් නම් කොහ්මත් නෑ. බැටරිය බහිනවා සිග්නල් හොයලම ෆොන් එකේ... ඒ වගේ ද නම්බුව , අපි ඩයලොග්.....

 

[UnlimitedBB]

Yeah, true. It was marketing campaign by Dialog. They won't give cheap packages or rates like Airtel or Hutch since they have a loyal customer base and they really want to get rid of people who switch networks for marginal low rates. For example, when every network reduced on net SMS charges to 10 cents and other network SMS to 25 cents in 2010, Dialog kept it at 25 cents. People who were 'concerned' about the 15 cents different switched to other networks. As years passed, this eventually translated into people with low income and low spending capacity to be stuck into networks like Airtel and Hutch.

SLT, the tubelights of the industry realized this much later and they did run a campaign labeling Mobitel as "Wadagath nommarayak" (Repectable Number) in late 2000s. They were somewhat successful with it too.

 

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0777111***

 

[The hood]

Dialog 0777 පස්සේ තමා 0773, 0772 වගේ නම්බර් පිලිගන්නේ. 076 & 074 පිලිගැනිම ඊටත් අඩුයි. මොබිටෙල් 070 එකටත් ඔය සෙතේමනේ.... මොනවා උනත් මේ යන විදිහට number portability නම් එන එකක් නෑ වගේ

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------ Post added on Aug 10, 2022 at 2:54 PM