News & Reviews:   U Mobile

If you're an Apple and Celcom, Digi or U Mobile user, you're in luck because they've announced that all subscribers can now pay for purchases in the App Store, Apple Music and iTunes directly from their mobile phone account. This applies to both postpaid and prepaid users.

U Mobile has teamed up with the MinesKi Events Team and Logitech G to launch the Malaysia Esports League or MESL as the biggest Dota 2 League in Malaysia with an RM500000 prize pool split to the champion and top 16 teams. If the winning gamers are U Mobile users then they could win an additional up to RM50000 cash prize with U Mobile's 'For The Win' campaign, which could go to the 2nd or 3rd place teams if they aren't. Starting on 2 September 2017 until before CNY 2018 it is available to both Peninsular and East Malaysian teams of 3 gamers by registering at MESL.my in the coming weeks. Fans looking to watch should check out Astro's eGG Network and Twitch.TV.

As most of you already heard, U Mobile will be terminating their network agreement with Maxis. It will take effect by the end of next year (2018) on December, reason being that the company wants to focus on expanding their own network instead piggybacking. U Mobile has also assured their customers that the change in network won’t affect their data usage dramatically. Anyway, below is the official statement by U Mobile:

U Mobile and Sun Life Malaysia have partnered up to offer telco-assurance to U Mobile's over 5 million customers. This may include micro insurance at low premiums per month but these products are only set to be available from October 2017. Check back U Mobile's site then for more details.

U Mobile has announced their new Unlimited HERO Postpaid P78 plan for RM78 a month, providing for a limited time only:

• unlimited calls to all networks
• unlimited high-speed data
• free 10GB hotspot data
• free 5GB Roam-Onz data roaming 

Today, U Mobile is excited to bring Unlimited Ideas campaign for their customers. Unlimited Ideas consist of multiple music festivals line up for this year which their customers can enjoy, such as the highly anticipated Ed Sheeran Malaysia Tour, Urbanscapes 2017, Upfront concert, and Good Vibes Festival 2017. Got your groove on yet? Read below for more details.

U Mobile had just launched booKu, a service that enables U Mobile subscribers to purchase e-books and e-magazines using their mobile plans. This service is in partnership with four digital publishers, namely SPH Magazines, Pubu eBook, FullAMark and NovelPlus.

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.

Today, U Mobile has announced their partnership with leading global mobile commerce solution provider DOCOMO Digital in Malaysia, to allow their customers to purchase various digital services online via their mobile phone plan. With this, U Mobile customers will be able to make purchase of digital services from platforms such as Google Play Store even if they do not own a credit or debit card.

Today, U Mobile Sdn Bhd has announced a brand new Prepaid plan called Game-Onz, which offers customers to enjoy selected PC games from Steam, Garena and Playone Asia anytime, anywhere without ever running out of data. Game-Onz is a standalone plan and it's in conjunction with MSI MGA Pacific Championship, the prepaid plan is now available nationwide.