News & Reviews:   U Mobile

Today, U Mobile just suddenly announced a new Unlimited HERO P139 plan feature for their customers. According to their website, the new postpaid feature now allows customers to register up to three (3) Share 20 postpaid lines to share P139's 50GB hotspot data at just RM1 per month and per line!

With an end to the COVID-19 pandemic nowhere in sight, our country has to make an effort to bring things back to normal to ensure our economy doesn't deteriorate. Many companies are finding ways to help and for telcos, it's mostly free internet. to find new ways to contribute. To that end, telco operators based in Malaysia will continue to provide certain industries with free internet.

Today, in an on-going effort to ease the rakyat's burdens during the Conditional Movement Control Order, U Mobile have come up with some promotions. According to the company, they will be offering a Giler BagiLebih campaign with GoInsure 3 insurance plan alongside a free upgrade to an iPhone 11 (128GB) model when they purchase the iPhone 11 (64GB) model. But first, let's take a look at the campaign detail.

Opensignal is back with another Mobile Network Experience Report, this time analysing the user experience for Malaysians when it comes to mobile networks in the country. The report covers all major mobile network operators in Malaysia including Celcom, Digi, Maxis, U-Mobile, Unifi, and Yes. It also analyses the experiences of users across 14 different regions in Malaysia.

Today, GoPayz, a universal e-wallet platform by U Mobile have joined the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak. From now on until 30 June 2020, GoPayz will be giving away a total of RM1 million worth of cash throughout their #GiveBack campaign. So how does that work? Read on below to find out more.

As we journey through Phase 2 of the Movement Control Order, U Mobile continues to provide their customers with their daily free 1GB Internet data and 2x Hotspot data up to 100GB. This time, the telco went an extra mile of donating a total of 100 new mobile phones equipped with 100 GX68 postpaid SIMs to the University Malaya Medical Centre and Hospital Sungai Buloh frontliners.

While MCMC have officially stated that the free 1GB Internet data provided by Celcom, Digi, Maxis and U Mobile will only be available in between 8AM - 6PM, many users thought that time limit is a bit of a letdown. Moreover, this applies to both postpaid and prepaid customers but not to Yoodo. Thanks to one of our readers, it has come to our attention that Yoodo users can use their free 1GB Internet data any time and anywhere. 

Just last Wednesday, our Prime Minister Muhyiddin officially extended the Movement Control Order (MCO) for everyone's benefit in hopes to minimize the COVID-19 spread. During his second live telecast last Friday, he also mentioned that Malaysians will be receiving their 1GB free Internet data starting from 1 April, but didn't say how. Thankfully, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) released an official statement about this a few hours ago so here's the full breakdown.

We are only in Day 2 of the Movement Restriction Order and more companies are coming out with solutions to deal with this. As you may already know, GrabFood and foodpanda are already implementing "Contactless Delivery", but U Mobile is now offering something cooler - The Hottest Spot campaign - which offers more hotspot data quota for their customers. 

In this latest Opensignal report, we have been given a new look at how well do Singaporeans experienced roaming during their stay in Malaysia. The company were analyzing 3 categories - Download Speed Experience, Upload Speed Experience and Latency Experience - and discovered some interesting details of Singaporean's choice of telco operators during 2019.