Earlier today, Digi has officially announced that they have more than 7000 Digi WiFi access points across Malaysia, which are currently located in various key areas. These areas include shopping malls, business centres, tourist spots as well as several educational sectors such as colleges and universities. By connecting to the aforementioned Digi WiFi, the user can have unlimited internet quota with speeds of up to 4Mbps starting from only RM1.

In conjunction with the upcoming 10.10 Brands Festival, Shopee in partnership with the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs aims to encourage fellow Malaysians to support local products. What Shopee has done was to create a dedicated section, called “Buy Malaysian” on their official website as well as on the Shopee app to showcase various Malaysian products.

unifi has recently announced starting from 1 October 2019 until 31 December 2019, any new unifi Home or unifi Biz customers will be able to enjoy free internet until 31 December 2019. But that’s not all, existing customers who renewed their unifi contract within the promo period would be able to enjoy free internet until the end of 2019.

The MCMC chairman has announced very recently, stating that up 32 5G sites across 6 states such as Kedah, Perak, Penang, Selangor, Terengganu and Kuala Lumpur will be operational starting October 2019. Since it is a test, the sites mentioned will remain operational for as long as half a year to demonstrate it’s usage in agriculture, education, digital media, healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, smart cities, transportation and tourism.

ServerDNA 4 which is a convention focused heavily on gaming and esports was recently held in Le Merridien Putrajaya, on 28 and 29 September 2019. For this first time, the convention had up to 2 floors filled with booths from international and local brands, as well as Malaysian gaming personalities.

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to attend a keynote panel discussion hosted by edotco where notable figures such as CEO of Time Broadband Afzal Abdul Rahim, CEO of Robi Axiata Limited Mahtab Uddin Ahmed, Head of BCG Vaishali Rastogi, as well as Chairman of MCMC Encik Al-ishal Ishak were present. They then discuss the state of Malaysia's network infrastructure and whether it is enough to support the upcoming 5G network which will start to roll out sometime next year.

Yesterday, U Mobile has announced a partnership with WeChat to launch the WeChat GO Malaysia Mini Program. The aforementioned program serves to aid travellers coming from mainland China by allowing them to purchase items and services via their own currency, Renminbi(RMB) via the WeChat app.

Shopee has announced that their 9.9 Super Shopping Day campaign has garnered more than triple the number of orders, compared to 2018’s 9.9 campaign last year. Not only that, but Shopee has also mentioned that during 9 September 2019 there were as many as 187606 items sold within the first minute of the campaign.

Grab has announced PayLater payment option which is a new feature that lets you pay all your grab bills at once from rides, GrabFood deliveries and more at the start of next month. While this feature is only available to selected Grab users, Grab plans to open up to feature to more users depending on several eligibility factors such as GrabReward tier, account age, and how many rides you have taken.

Family Mart has announced that their My FamilyMart mobile app is now officially available for download via the Google Play Store, as well as the iOS App Store. Not only that, but you can also sign up to get free stuff such as Sofuto Ice Cream and more as well every week.