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Who will not tempted to have a second look upon seeing such ads? Raise your hand!
Yes, its true the phone price is RM0.99, only if you think your monthly talk plan worth RM250 per month. Anyway, this is still brilliant marketing tactic, but the phone offered is not tempting enough.
Anyone still using Motorola (other than Razr series)??
Now I’m start wondering why there are so many circuit faulty and bla bla bla incidents affecting Streamyx services and bla bla bla… It so unreliable, making access to the US based websites way too slow..
Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to announce that there is a disruption of its Internet services due to circuit faults on the SMW3 between Tuas, Singapore and Penang linking Malaysia to Hong Kong and APCN2 near Chongming, China connecting Malaysia to the United States. As a result, customers using the Internet services may experience slow browsing while accessing websites hosted in the U.S. and Hong Kong.
In addition, customers using other IP services such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other critical business applications linked to the U.S. and Hong Kong may also experience some service degradation.
To alleviate the problem, some of the links have been rerouted to alternate routes to ease the congestion.
Restoration works on the affected cables are already in progress. However, during the restoration process, traffic to Northern America and Hong Kong may experience degradation. However, traffic to other countries will not be affected. TM expects complete recovery of its services by 5 April 2009 and will make further announcements on the progress of the restoration works.
TM wishes to assure its customers that it is undertaking all necessary measures to restore communications services for its customers as soon as possible.
Customers can call TM at 100 and select “Internet Services” or e-mail us at help@tm.com.my for any Internet related problems.
Last week, we have seen how Maxis and iPhone dominating the local telcos news with the official release of iPhone to the local market. Not to be outdone with its rival, Celcom beginning this weekend, started to air, TV commercial promoting unknown device due to be unveiled April. You can guess what it is based on the size.
It is none other than iPhone rival…. Blackberry Storm!! Well, my early guess appears to be true.
Blackberry Storm is the first touch screen phone from RIM, compete directly with Apple iPhone on the smartphone segment. It manage to grab quite an attention when it was released last year, so it is interesting how it will compete here in the local market.
No detail about the device price as well as the data plan or call plan available on the Celcom’s Storm webpage. It is unknown if it will use existing plan or Celcom will introduce new plans just like Maxis approach with iPhone.
Interested user can prebook now, where there are free gift worth RM638 up for grab. Head to Celcom’s Blackberry Storm page for more information.
Last week, DiGi officially introduced it Digi broadband service, hence become the latest player to join the fray of internet service providers in Malaysia. With tag line ‘Broadband Done Right’, it promise to provide the greater broadband experiment to Malaysian.
DiGi broadband run on 14.4Mbps HSDPA network infrastructure, although the advertising only mentioning 7.2Mbps as their fastest speed . Digi also claim that their broadband can achieved 2Mbps download and a 1Mbps upload .
DiGi broadband offer the service in 3 different packages, consist of Discovery(RM58), Explore (RM108) and Extreme (RM180) with maximum usage in the range of 3GB to 20GB. Download speed ranging from 700kbps to 2mbps, while upload range from 200kbps to 1Mbps.
The first 2 package use modem cost RM30 monthly, paid on installment for 12 months period, while Extreme which using different model, cost RM50 monthly, in 12 months period as well. All modem will be owned by customer when the subscription end.
Customer bound no contract on all packages, but they have to pay the remaining balance of modem installment, upon termination of the service. More comparison among the ISP provider can be found here.
Considering this service is just rolled out recently, DiGi broadband coverage still limited to certain locations in Klang Valley, although Digi plan to cover all population area in Malaysia, on the later stage.
DiGi will also be introducing its 3G voice and data services for mobile phones this year.
Interested?Use plan recommender to know which DiGi broadband package works best for you. For instant, if you get online daily, more than 6 hours per day, for the purpose of internet surfing, email , download and entertainment, it will suggest Explore package, cost you RM108 per month + RM30 for modem (12 months installment).
However with only 10GB limit, and my family run 3 notebooks consecutively for almost 16hours everyday, this package is not suitable for our need. Check out the coverage area too, before subsribing.
Celcom, yesterday introduce its latest broadband package, Celcom Broadband Prepaid starter kit for people who want to get online without the hassle of registration. Broadband service offered as prepaid package, is the first of its kind in Malaysia, although the prepaid concept itself is nothing new here.
Broadband Prepaid starter pack is priced at RM25 with RM20 credit. It is valid for for usage of 7 consecutive days of internet access at speeds of up to 384 Kbps. Pretty slow indeed.
It can be activated instantly without the need of any registration. However this is data only services, which means NO voice/video calls and SMS features available.
Is this the right package you? This is depend on how your internet usage is.
Are you lite internet user? Are you rarely online? Are you traveling a lot?
If the answer is yes, probably this is fine for you. But if you relied on internet for some serious related purpose, go fo other package which offer higher speed and bandwidth.
More info about broadband prepaid can be found here.
Celcom currently offers the widest broadband coverage in the country, covering 71% of the populated areas in Malaysia, with over 270,000 subscribers as at end-February.
