Maxis just quietly slipped a 100Mbps package to its Home Fibre Internet page that you can presumably sign-up for soon (if not immediately) for RM398 a month, or RM330 a month if you’re on MaxisONE. It joins the existing 30Mbps, 20Mbps, and 10Mbps fibre plans that Maxis is offering for home users.
Other home fibre plans
This plan is not yet available for its Business Fibre Internet packages, where only speeds of 4Mbps, 8Mbps, 16Mbps, and 32Mbps are available at this point. Years back there were only MetroFON and PenangFON that made fibre connectivity available to a few lucky residential areas, until Telekom Malaysia’s (TM) UniFi came along and offered a much wider coverage area (and still expanding, hopefully). TIME’s Fibre Broadband was also launched in the same year — 2010 — but its coverage area remains only in certain spots in the Klang Valley.
Maxis Fibre Internet came just a year later in 2011, offering a minimum of 10Mbps for RM148 a month (same rate today), which is around RM50 cheaper than UniFi’s 10Mbps package, though UniFi comes bundled with the HyppTV set-top box.
Other 100Mbps plans
A 100Mbps connection seems to be the gold standard for now, when it comes to fibre internet connection. For home internet users, there are only two ISPs that offer 100Mbps — TIME and now, Maxis. Speaking of TIME Fibre Broadband earlier, it was one of the first to offer a 100Mbps plan (in 2012), and it’s still the cheapest at just RM179 a month. Unfortunately it has a 100GB quota and an extremely limited coverage as mentioned earlier.
TM UniFi went the other direction and offers 100Mbps for its BIZ 100 plan, since 2013. However, being a business package, the dynamic IP connection is at whopping RM1,599 a month, while the fixed IP is RM200 more, a month.
Caveats
On the one hand, while even UniFi’s home fibre plans have a “download volume” quota, until today the quotas have yet to be enforced, meaning we’re still getting unlimited downloads. Maxis Home Fibre, on the other hand, has in its FAQs, that it reserves the right to throttle the bandwidth once the Fair Usage Policy (FUP) quota is reached, though it did not specify the quota for the 100Mbps plan.
However, to sweeten the deal, Maxis is now offering a 3-day installation guarantee, and a 30-day “return back guarantee” should you find the 100Mbps fibre from Maxis unsatisfactory. You Luddite, you.
Alternatives
If you’re willing to go a bit slower, like say, 50Mbps, ABNxcess seems to now have that speed, though according to the comments on our ABNxcess articles, the service may not be up to snuff. Also, the coverage area is miniscule.
The next best thing to 100Mbps is UniFi’s yet-to-be-widely-available 50Mbps and 30Mbps plans, which for RM200+, gives you 50Mbps download speeds, plus a boatload of HyppTV channels.
Wrap-up
If you absolutely want a 100Mbps connection at home, are not in TIME Fibre’s coverage area, and are not willing to pay RM1,599 for UniFi BIZ 100 (I mean, who is?), Maxis’ 100Mbps Home Fibre may seem like the only choice, for now.
As with any new rollout, Maxis Fibre Internet 100Mbps may not be available in your area yet, even if the slower tiers are. You could call 1 800 82 1123 to find out if your area is covered. For more information, visit: http://www.maxis.com.my/en/personal/internet/maxis-fibre-internet.html.
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