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1Malaysia Netbook With Broadband Price Capped At RM1,000

So next time you want to purchase 1 Malaysia netbook, you gotta be sure the price is below RM1000 including the broadband subscription fee for 6 months period. The ‘assurance’ is provided by the minister themselves, and I assume the that’s include installment payment method.

But alas, even before that, some of the price of 1 Malaysia netbook with 384 kbps broadband is only at RM912 with 24 months installment.  Unless the said package is come with the 512 kbps broadband package or better, or this covers all netbook model under the 1Malaysia netbook initiative,  I foresee nothing new here.

Access Speeds Streamyx + Komputer 1Malaysia netbook (For the 1st 24 months and beyond) (RM) Streamyx + HP Netbook (RM)
1st 24 months From the 25th month onwards
384Kbps 38 59 38
512Kbps 53 74 53
1Mbps 68 89 68
2Mbps 83 104 83
4Mbps

source: thestar

Admin 25 November 2010 telecommunication , , , , , No Comments

3 Netbook With Internet Broadband Packages For Students

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Broadband and netbook are must have gears for students nowadays. Choosing the right netbook with broadband package is critical if you have limited budget as usually the packages subscribed tie you to that network for 1 to 2 years. On top of that, the durability of the netbook and consistence performance of the broadband service, are what you’re expecting after spending hundreds buck of hard earned income to get the services.

Sadly, there is not much choice of broadband with netbook package available publicly in the market. Certain higher intuition do provide easy payment scheme to purchase netbook but that’s limited to their student only. Available in the market at this point of time, there are only 3 netbook with internet broadband packages, 1 free broadband service as well as some education program with discounted price for students from certain computer vendors.

1. Streamyx Cool Uni Pack

A broadband with netbook package dedicated ONLY to students, this is an initiative by government with collaboration with Streamyx to ease the ownership or netbook and broadband to students. The package comes with free broadband connection for 2 years with very affordable monthly commitment.

What’s in package : Netbook, WiFi modem, 384kbps Streamyx Broadband for 2 years

Price : RM38 for 2 years

Link : Cool Unipack page

2. Celcom Broadband + Netbook.

This is publicly available netbook/notebook with internet broadband service that open to anyone. As this is profit oriented scheme, the price tag is not as affordable as Unipack package. The are 2 ways how you can get this packages, pay RM88 permonth for 2 years to get the broadband and netbook without needing to pay huge sum upfront. Or secondly, pay RM888 to get the netbook and additional RM58/98 for broadband package for 1 year

What’s in the package : Netbook, Celcom broaband

Price :  RM88 permonth for 2 years or RM888 for netbook and RM58/98 for celcom broadband

Link : Celcom Broadband

3. W1MAX-1NSiDE 4G Laptop

Almost similar as netbook with Celcom broadband package with slightly different technology. The broadband itself is using Wimax technology. And the netbook is Wimax ready, with Wimax chip already embedded into the netbook/notebook so no modem or whatsoever is required. The drawback is Wimax coverage itself which still pretty much limited at this point of time. But if you lived in the area where coverage is available, this is pretty good deal as they do provide free Wimax service between 3 months to 6 months.

What’s inside the package – Netbook or notebook itself

Price – Price is vary, with price starting from RM1349 to 2599

Link : Wimax Inside

4. YTL Education Partner Program (EPP)

This not so widely known program is providing free broadband access to students in UTM Skudai, a collaboration between UTM and YTL Comm. The broadband which run on so called 4G technology (sorry I’m not aware whether it is LTE or Wimax) aim to expand the service through out Malaysian campus by end of 2010. The free is limited to 300MB worth of data permonth, considerably few but still okey for just web browsing and reading email usage. After all, it’s free, right? If you’re interested and students, you can subscribe or reading more of this from the link below

Link : YTL EPP

5. Apple Education Pricing

For those with higher budget, Apple does provide discounted price for their Apple Macbook for students. The discount ranged from RM400 to RM700 and you can’t get the deal from Apple online store only. Check out this page for more info.

6. Other broadband service

Broadband is more affordable than ever nowadays. From wired to wireless, there are variety of packages that suit your needs as well as your budget. Head to ISP such as Streamyx, Jaring and TM for wired broadband or Celcom, Digi, Maxis, U-Mobile for wireless broadband.

7. Acer Education pricing

Honestly, I’m not sure if this program still available right now, but it definitely available in the past. Acer never advertised this program , but if you walk-in to any notebook store selling Acer netbook, there is a chance it might still there.

Admin 18 July 2010 telecommunication , , , , , , , , , , , , 2 Comments

TM’s Broadband Netbook Package From RM38 Permonth

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I’m not sure how I miss this promotion. It started a week ago according to a friend of mine who make me aware of this.

Hold your horse before you’re getting too excited as this offer is only eligible to families with total household income less than RM5000 (city) and RM3000 (rural). Beside TM which provide 200,000 unit of  free netbook for this program, there are 4 other companies to follow the suit.

There are 2 type of netbooks available with each tied to 24 months contract, and lucky us this table summarize the whole payment and subscription fee structure.

Access Speeds Streamyx + Komputer 1Malaysia netbook (For the 1st 24 months and beyond) (RM) Streamyx + HP Netbook (RM)
1st 24 months From the 25th month onwards
384Kbps 38 59 38
512Kbps 53 74 53
1Mbps 68 89 68
2Mbps 83 104 83
4Mbps 88 109 88

source: Malaysia Wireless

You should really go through the FAQ and Term & Condition pages to understand everything before you commit to this program, but here are some essential information you should know.

  • Free WiFi Modem
  • Free Netbook Delivery
  • No Activation Fee (save RM75)
  • No Installation Fee (save RM88)
  • 50% Discount for first month subscription
  • Additional charge for new customer without TM fixed lie
    • Service Deposit – RM75
    • Duty Stamp RM10
    • Internal Wiring RM30 – RM50(first 5 meter) and RM/5 for additional
  • No additional charge for existing TM fixed line
  • Contract Period 24 months
  • RM600 administration fee for early termination
  • Netbook provided by HP (most likely HP Mini 210) or NadiAyu (shown below)

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My Take.

The broadband with netbook package is indeed very good. It is  common that the excuse behind not subscribing to broadband service is because they can’t afford to buy computer (but they can afford LCD TV 32″). Now the broadband comes with netbook and I don’t see any reason why one still without internet connection at home.

I also have some concern with 1Malaysia netbook build quality, but hopefully the company behind it strive the best to serve the customer.  Even notebook from reputable company tend to broke down after the warranty end. To most people who subscribe to this package, this might be their first computer and it could be mishandled in any ways.

384 kbps speed is just enough to surf the net, but it could be little to slow to view videos or pages with high multimedia element.

Admin 6 June 2010 telecommunication , , , , , 42 Comments

TM To Lower Streamyx Subscription Fee? Why It Is a Must?

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.

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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?

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Admin 26 March 2010 telecommunication , , , , , 5 Comments

HSBB VS BBGP


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You may notice the series of High Speed Broadband (HSBB) printed ads, published on major newspaper on the past few days. The ads carrying the message of what HSBB actually is, and how it can benefited citizens towards the new Economy Model  currently promoted by federal government.

Out of fancy ads, there is one thing that caught my attention, which stating that HSBB will complement Streamyx, instead of replacing it as most of you expected including me . I’m sure most of you  will think that HSBB will eventually replacing Streamyx, but that’s appear not quite true at this moment.

To get the better understanding about this matter, there are 2 type of broadband category under National Broadband Initiative (NBI). One is HSBB as you familiar with, and Broadband for the General Population (BGPP) which many had just heard it for the first time today. The different between these 2 broadband service is, HSBB will cater for high economic impact areas such as Klang Valley while Broadband for the General Population (BGPP) is for areas. And for Streamyx, it is one of BGPP which includes 3G, HSPA, Wimax and fixed line

So, what do you think?

Admin 23 March 2010 telecommunication , , , , , , , No Comments
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