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In case if you’re wondering why there is no post for the last few days, that’s because I was away with no internet connection. Subsequently, I’ll be on training, testing, and deployment for 2-3 weeks or probably till May. I’ll have very limited time writing post here. I’ll try posting a post per day, but in the mean time, why don’t you read the archive posts.
The so called League of Extraordinary Developers Challenge (LEDC) organized by Celcom is back this year after making it’s first appearance on 2008. This year challenge is to develop application for Blackberry, in conjunction with Blackberry App World release for Malaysia.
RIM made available it’s 2 APIs, Blackberry Push Essential and Blackberry Push Plus for developer to assist them develop the app for Blackberry.
The contest will open from 1-May until 30 June where the selected winners will have the chance to tie exclusive revenue sharing with Celcom of up to 80:20, a nice figure if the application sell well. Interested? Drop your request/inquiry to this email address . The workshop will start on April, so act fast.
Sometimes, having 2 communication channels will confuse you. Here in Twitter, TMCorp tweet that the price for all BBGP, the so called broadband category where Streamyx is in, will be revised. The price for all Streamyx packages will be lowered after they’d consolidated all packages and bundle currently in offer.
Meanwhile in TheStar, TM’s CEO stated that the Streamyx pricing will remain as it is, except for 4Mb package which was reduced to RM140 from RM160 before. After Unifi launch, many is expecting Streamyx pricing to be revised so the price is in sync with what is offered by Unifi. But that is not happening, yet.
Looking at the time line where this news was published, and the recent U-turn decision to remove volume cap on all Unifi packages, I have a belief that the Streamyx price will be lowered down later on. Only time will tell when.
Why does TM need to revise Streamyx pricing structure? Simple mathematics will do. If you look at Unifi VIP5 package which is priced at RM149 for RM5Mb, when you divide the price per MB, the subscriber ends up only paying for only RM29.8 for 1MB. It’s cheap right, although that’s not really a valid method to calculate the broadband price per bandwidth. Meanwhile Streamyx 1MB package is charging RM99 (with modem) per month, and as you can see, that’s a huge price difference between the two services.
What does this mean? Poor folks pay higher to get the basic broadband services with little or no add-on, and rich folks pay less to get quality service with generous add-on. You know what kind of people lived in TTDI, Bangsar and Shah Alam.
But, it’s not about fairness that I want to point out here, but it’s back to the affordability of broadband service itself that TM must give higher priority now. Federal aims 50% broadband penetration rate by end of this year, knock the price down, and in return you get more people flocking to your service. Am I right?
TM via its official Twitter account has announced that, there is no more data cap for all Unifi packages for residential due to public feedback. But they will monitor the Unifi usage before deciding on higher volume caps or excess volume charge.
That’s quite goods news to consumer and positive sign as TM is now willing to compromise and listen to public opinion , instead of sticking to it’s original plan. Now what, my fellow Malaysian? Let’s request TM to lower Unifi subscription fee!!
Since Unifi website is opened yesterday, if you notice, it had changed its homepage a few times, before settling with the existing design. Instead of testing, it’s more towards phase by phase deployment in my guess, but with a project at that scale, it makes me wonder if the preparation was done properly. Here is how Unifi homepage looks like from yesterday until today.
Index.html. This is Unifi’s first homepage design deployed on yesterday afternoon. No fancy graphic or flash, just a plain white page with information about Unifi’s package for residential and business.
Later in the evening, the homepage changed to this design, which is currently the main page for Unifi’s package for residential.
Index2.html Soon after that, a short splash page was added before homepage design above. The splash page remain until now.
Index 3. Finally,this is what I believe to be the final design of Unifi homepage. So the sequence to get to view the Unifi package is splash page, this homepage, before choosing residential or business package.
Unfortunately, the link to the package detail is broken, clicking on the package brings you nowhere.
