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Today, Maxis has become partners with one of the world’s largest full-service online travel sites, Expedia.com.my, to offer its postpaid customers a first-of-its-kind data roaming offer. With that, Maxis customers can now enjoy a FREE 1-day roaming pass on any hotel booking done via www.expedia.com.my/maxisroaming, as long as the destination of the hotel stay is within Maxis’s wide network of 117 roaming-pass enabled countries.

During the month of August, Maxis and its media agencies built a brand new home for two Orang Asli families each at Perkampungan Orang Asli Serendah, Rawang, Selangor. Held in two separate sessions from 19-21 August and 26-28 August, more than 60 volunteers completed building the homes from the ground up, with guidance from building specialists provided by EPIC Homes.

Today, Maxis has announced that subscribers of SurfMore 50 and 75 will be getting an additional 2GB Internet data starting tomorrow (28 October) onwards. The change is free and it will be automatically updated permanently.

Did you notice some boxes hanging on some ceiling inside Suria KLCC? Well, that is a new Lampsite technology by Maxis and it's an advanced indoor coverage for Maxis 4G users. The Lampsite is capable of enhancing data capacity at hotspots with 4G LTE+ to achieve Malaysia’s first 225Mbps peak download speed.

With Deepavali just around the corner, Maxis has launched new microsite called www.maxislightalife.my as part of its Light a Life campaign. Maxis Light a Life is an interactive dual-story film to help raise awareness about underprivileged youth, about how 4 out of 10 of them will fall into a life of crime and violence. With an interactive approach, viewers are able to switch to a parallel storyline that holds a promising ending.

The iPhone 7 hype is finally over here in Malaysia. Maxis Berhad started to deliver the device to the customer via their #Maxis24hrExpress plan. Morten Lundal, CEO of Maxis also joined the game and delivers the brand new iPhone 7 to one of their customers.

Today, Maxis 4G and YouTube Malaysia have premiered Maxis Rojak 360 event in TGV Cinema @ One Utama. Maxis Rojak 360 is Malaysia's first ever 360-degrees film series by five homegrown award-winning storytellers, using YouTube's 360-degrees immersive video-on-mobile platform, each film invites the audience to move their phones around in all directions in order to "See Malaysia From All Angles".

Today, YouTube Malaysia has announced their collaboration with both Maxis and Sunway University to kick off the YouTube Broadcast Box roadshow. What's that? Well, the roadshow is designed to equip the next generations of Malaysian creators with the necessary knowledge to get a running start on YouTube, the Broadcast Box is a specially made mobile studio equipped with cameras, a green screen, and editing equipment tuned to help new creators shoot and upload videos on YouTube.

Today, Maxis has made an announcement about their collaboration with Vodafone to implement Internet of Things (IoT) services into Malaysia. The agreement between the two parties will allow Maxis to offer enterprises best in class IoT solutions to optimise costs, improve operational efficiency, create more value and ultimately deliver a better customer experience.

Starting tomorrow 13 May 2016, Maxis will be offering the Apple iPhone SE through their Zerolution programme online and Maxis Centres nationwide. Exclusively with MaxisOne plan, customers can get any model of the iPhone SE from RM45 per month with no plan contract and can upgrade to the latest iPhone every year.