Maxis said no matter how you slice it, it still has the fastest and widest 4G...
Digi’s 50% 4G LTE coverage claim (October 12th) It all began when Digi announced on October 12th, out of the blue, that it now has Malaysia’s widest 4G LTE network, with a 50% population coverage....
View ArticleTelekom Malaysia will give free access to iflix with new partnership
In recognising the growing popularity of its competitor in the content segment, Telekom Malaysia (TM) has now announced a unique collaboration to allow its UniFi (Personal) and Streamyx subscribers to...
View ArticleCelcom is giving away goodies worth millions of ringgit till February 2016
Celcom has announced its new giveaway campaign, worth millions of ringgit, to reward both its 12.51 million existing Celcom customers (as of Q3 2015) as well as new ones. The campaign started at the...
View ArticleBoth Maxis and Digi now have LTE Advanced coverage areas
Maxis Maxis was the first to made available its 4G LTE Advanced network (LTE-A, or Carrier Aggregation) in Malaysia. It hinted this during its “Blind Drifting” event on June 17th 2015, where a...
View ArticleU Mobile has the fastest mobile network in Malaysia, according to Speedtest...
Update on 4th January 2016: Unfortunately, the extra gigabyte was only up to 31st December 2015. Current plans show up without the extra GB and has even been removed from the quota of existing users....
View ArticleMCMC issues compounds amounting to RM 2.29 million to telcos for false/fake...
Malaysian telecommunication companies were issued compounds totalling RM 2.29 million for 50 offences this year, involving false/fake registration of prepaid SIM cards. The sum was for the offences...
View ArticleTelcos to give rebates for prepaid reloads in 2016 – within 24 hours after...
In the second quarter of this year, when GST was introduced, there was a slight confusion for prepaid services when both the Royal Malaysian Customs Department and MCMC issued different statements...
View ArticleFree 12-month iflix access for subscribers of Digi SmartPlan 65 and above
In a continuous effort to get more viewers hooked to its video on-demand streaming service, iflix announced yet another partnership with Digi to offer the telco’s (postpaid) subscribers a 12-month...
View ArticleMaxis introduces its Kongsi Home Project to build homes for the underprivileged
For this Chinese New Year, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, Maxis is partnering with top Malaysian e-commerce sites and EPIC Homes to raise funds to build homes via its...
View ArticleThree-way deal paves way for Celcom to offer fixed broadband and for TM‘s P1...
Picture (left to right): Datuk Bazlan Osman, CFO of TM; Puan Chan Cheong, CEO of P1; Tan Sri Zamzamzairani Mohd. Isa, Group CEO of TM; Dato’ Sri Shazalli Ramly, CEO of Celcom; Ramanathan Sathiamutty,...
View ArticleU Mobile Hero Plus offers 10GB collective data and unlimited calls on two...
Earlier today, U Mobile announced an “enhanced” Hero postpaid plan called U Mobile Hero Plus. It is not exactly a plan on its own, but rather an extension to its Hero P70 plan. P70 offers 7GB of...
View ArticleTM UniFi ADVANCE PLAN with 2X the upload speeds now — finally back to the...
In a move than could be taken as a misstep, or perhaps as bowing down to customer pressure, or maybe even as a genuine gesture to serve the customers’ needs, TM has gone back on its previous decision...
View ArticleThe new Yes Super 88 Postpaid Plan comes with free Huddle XS in red and 11 GB...
Chinese New Year with Yes is going to be even more prosperous with the launch of its brand new Super 88 Postpaid Plan that comes with 11 GB of high speed data. This is double the usual data quota but...
View ArticleMaxis now supports carrier direct billing for Google Play Store purchases
Following Digi’s footsteps to offer carrier billing for Play Store purchases, it now appears that Maxis too is offering the same. Maxis’s carrier direct billing allows both Maxis and Hotlink customers...
View ArticleMCMC to reallocate 900MHz and 1800MHz bands by August 2016
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) made public yesterday that the 900MHz and 1800MHz wireless spectrum bands will be reallocated among four players by August 2016, namely...
View ArticleDigi SmartPlan 75 gives you 7GB data and unlimited calls to all networks
Digi was once known to have the best plans on the market, but some years back, that reputation began to slip as the competition became more dynamic and offered cheaper plans with more data and...
View ArticleCelcom FIRST Gold now cheaper at RM80/month, offers 5GB anytime data and 5GB...
In Celcom’s universe, the three wise monkeys embody a different principle, which is “see more (websites and videos), hear more (music), speak more (on the phone)”. From now until March 31st 2016,...
View ArticleCelcom announces FATTNET pack, new FIRST Gold plan, and NewPhone feature
The Chinese New Year festivities continues with Celcom’s Best Prosperity Deals. Covering both prepaid and postpaid users, the deals give users even more data, and introduces a brand new way to keep...
View ArticleU Mobile UMI gets another free 1GB in February 2016
U Mobile sure knows how to please its subscribers. Back in December 2015, it offered its postpaid customers (P70, P50, U28) an additional 1GB of data for just that month. Later in January 2016, it...
View ArticleMCMC announces reallocation of spectrum for Celcom, Digi, Maxis, and U Mobile
On Monday, MCMC’s Chairman, Dato’ Sri Dr Halim Shafie, announced of the government’s decision to reallocate the spectrum as well as to start a bidding process on the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz frequency...
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