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U Mobile releases a new roaming plan for frequent travelers out there. If you are a U Mobile subscriber, it does not matter whether if you are on the prepaid or postpaid plan, you will be entitled to their new U Data Roam plan for only RM10/day. The promotion period will last from 7 April 2016 until 31 December 2016. This new plan will include a high-speed unlimited data usage but currently, it is only available in 12 countries as per the table displayed below.

Aries Telecoms, the Malaysia local wholesale telecommunications service provider, has just recently launched a 1Gbps broadband package pricing at RM5000 a month. The broadband package was launched under the product name Infinity. Clearly their target market is not your ordinary consumers due to the steep cost of the product. Instead, they are targeting those businesses that require high-speed internet connection for their daily operation in the company.

Huawei has been on a roll recently, hitting all the right notes, resulting in a net profit of 36.9 billion CNY. While there were profits from the carrier and enterprise business groups, what should be noted was a 73% rise year on year from the consumer business group (they're the ones making the Huawei Mate 8, Huawei Nexus 6P, honor 7 Enhanced, honor 7, honor 5X, Huawei MateBook and just announced Huawei P9 and Huawei P9 Plus).

HTC have already revealed HTC 10 teaser trailers featuring the best BoomSound audio, cameras with 4K video recording, OIS and Ultrapixel technology and now the latest one says it will have awesome battery life. No actual battery details or tech specs were revealed, unlike the previous camera trailer, and we expect the next teaser to be about the design. No specific Malaysia release dates or pricing details either but it is expected to get announced online on 12 April 2016.

After our frozen test with the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, we were all impressed by the new fully IP68 capless water and dust resistance of the smartphone. Today on 8 April 2016, Samsung Malaysia Electronics together with Traders Hotel came up with an idea to challenge KL's socialities and trendsetters from the local fashion, fitness and travel spheres to experience taking a selfie underwater with their new flagship, the Galaxy S7 Edge which is currently available in Malaysia for RM3099.

Today, SQL Server 2016 is officially launched by Microsoft Malaysia as the company’s newest flagship for business analytics and data management platform. With the release, this tally with Microsoft’s vision of empowering every person and organization to achieve more and support of the industry’s demands to build up data science.

In Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (Digi)'s latest chapter of installing 4G LTE tower today, they are now in Bau and Limbang, Sarawak completing their #DigiWeWant4G Twitter campaign quest by the nominations from their customers.

In regards to the recent live telecast by Maxis CEO Morten today, Maxis has announced that they will upgrade all existing MaxisONE Plan automatically for free by the end of the month! And that's not the best part, all four MaxisONE Plan 98, 128, 158 and 188 prices will remain the same, and current subscribers will be given free 3GB data from 14 April next week. Below is the table for your reference.

Today, Meizu CEO Huang has not only showed us the official Meizu Pro 6 device image but also confirming the flagship will launch sooner than expected on 13 April next week at 2.30pm in Beijing, China. The flagship will come in black, and assured us the body is slimmer than it looks from the image.

Maxis CEO Morten recently spoke out about the recent MaxisOne customized plans offered to customers who were going to port out. Quite obviously, cries of "unfair" were heard in Maxis social media. Morten, Maxis CEO and Dushyan, Head of Consumer Business, Maxis recently upped a video apologizing about this ruckus and the late response on the Maxis Social Media. Apart from the apology, their response to MaxisOne customers include:

• All existing MaxisOne Plan customers will be getting much higher upgraded quotas next month for the same price
• For example, MaxisOne 1GB will be upgraded to 5GB and MaxisOne 3GB will be upgraded to 8GB
• This will also include MaxisOne business users and will be implemented next month with more features (perhaps more movie, music streaming) and upgrades
• For now, ALL Maxis One customers will be getting an extra 3GB next week for free