News & Reviews:   telco

Today, YTL Communications in collaboration with Facebook has announced that Malaysia will be the first large-scale market pilot in Asia with the launch Terragraph high-speed broadband in Georgetown, Penang. All access to Terragraph’s network such as Public WiFi as well as Fixed Wireless Access will be free of charge, until the end of the market pilot.

In conjunction with the Chinese New Year festivities, Hotlink has released the longest CNY Hotlink ad in Malaysia which you can check out on their Youtube channel. Not only that, but Hotlink is also giving away 88GB of free Youtube data as part of their HotlinkMU CNY Sale from the 24 January 2019 until 20 February 2019.

Unifi has announced that in conjunction with the recently announced #khabarbaik movement, they have introduced the Unifi mobile plan with price starting from as low as RM19 a month called ‘Adik’ which provides with a total of 2GB of internet data, 5 minutes of talk time as well as being able to send up to 25 SMS.

The annual Chinese New Year festival is an occasion where family members, no matter near or far, would come together to celebrate. Maxis aims to bring together friends and family using mobile phones, thanks to a recent partnership with Dooit Live. Maxis will be hosting 16 live game sessions starting from 4 February 2019 until 19 February 2019 featuring 11 Chinese New Year themed questions, in which players have to answer within 10 seconds to be given a chance to win real prize money of up to RM188,000.

Digi has recently announced that they are the first telco in the world to launch a system that makes mobile data usage easier to manage thanks to a collaboration with Google.

Customers of Xpax can claim 1GB of free mobile data whenever they reload RM10 or more just by dialing *118*1*6# performing a reload. Since all prepaid plans and reloads are exempted from SST, you will be getting the exact value of the reload with no hidden charges involved. However do take note that the 1GB of free data is only valid for 24 hours from the start of the redemption.

Telekom Malaysia has released a mobile app for Unifi users to check their account status, bill payments, and even get in touch with Unifi representatives through the live chat available in the mobile app. Previously all of these were only made possible through Unifi's very own web manager but with the advent of the app released, it would make account management more efficient and convenient than ever before. The app is available on the Google Play store as well as the iOS App store starting today. For more updates like these, stay tuned to TechNave.com.

Recently Digi held an Star Wars event in Sunway Pyramid featuring the Star Wars: Jedi Challenges augmented reality game by Lenovo. During the event, customers can purchase the Augmented reality set for RM388 instead of the original RM776 for existing and new postpaid subscribers of Digi. Not only that, there were plenty of lucky draws, free gifts, as well as opportunities to take photos with Star Wars characters such as the lightsaber wielding Jedi and Sith.

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) recently measured the network performance and compliance to the Mandatory Standard for Quality of Service (QoS) of local broadband providers from January to November 2016. The report revealed that Maxis offers the fastest download speed throughout Malaysia while DiGi offers the least amount of lag.

Maxis recorded the fastest average download speeds in 5 out of 6 regions, though, in the central region(which covers Klang Valley and Negeri Sembilan), it was Celcom that has the fastest download speed. DiGi offers the quickest response time(Low average network latency), which basically meant "less lag" which is important in online gaming, streaming and teleconferencing.

Just in time for Chinese New year, Digi is offering its unlimited daily package for only 88sen for all prepaid customers. Valid for 24 hours, this package is available for Unlimited Video, Unlimited Social and Unlimited Internet Calls.