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?
