News & Reviews:   U Mobile

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.

After announcing their free data allocation for video streaming services, u Mobile now introduces Music Onz, their free data service for music streaming for u Mobile customers. Just like Video Onz, Music Onz provides free unlimited music streaming on both prepaid and postpaid plans.

It's been a week now since the Apple iPhone 7 & 7 Plus finally arrived on Malaysian shores, and the sales are literally everywhere now. With so many options given, which one should you choose? Well, why not try out with the most affordable deal from U Mobile's UPackage instalment plan?

So here's the deal, if you sign up for the UPackage instalment plan, you only need to pay RM0 upfront payment and 0% interest. Yup, after that - you can get ANY iPhone 7 capacity of 32GB, 128GB and 256GB for only RM88/month. Unlike the others, as this is a pay by instalment only. What about the iPhone 7 Plus? Well...

The biggest announcement of the week remains the Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones along with their Daydream View headset and a number of other devices. As the first wholly made by Google devices they look to phase out the Nexus range but you can check out all the highlights in our Google Pixel under 6 minutes video. 

The moment you have been waiting for is here – The Apple iPhone 7 is coming to Malaysia. At least that is what is being indicated by the three big telcos – Maxis, Digi, Celcom and U Mobile. The three companies are opening up registration of interest for customers who wishes to be one of the first in the line to get their own Cupertino special machines on their websites.