News & Reviews:   Unifi

Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister, Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin yesterday revealed in Parliament that two compounds have been issued to mobile service providers in Malaysia for not meeting the standard set by his ministry. As reported by national news agency Bernama, the two compounds include one amounting to RM60000 and the other compound amounting to RM20000 that is currently beng processed.

Zahidi further revealed that the two service providers compounded were Celcom, which failed to meet the standard in Sabah and the other one is Unifi Mobile, which failed to meet the standard in Melaka and Pahang. The Deputy Minister also confirmed that the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has opened 20 investigation papers on mobile service providers in our country. 

Over the weekend, you may have come across some news about unifi launching 5G services in February 2022. As exciting as it sounds, the company has backtracked the remark with an official statement regarding 5G services.

The recent floods in Selangor and other parts of Malaysia have been devastating for many people. Reaching out to those who have discovered that their router and other unifi equipment became damaged due to the floods, TM have announced via their twitter that you can get those exchanged for FREE.

In this latest news, there seems to be a stumbling block for Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB). According to sources, our Communications and Multimedia Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa just stated that the government may have second thoughts about its current 5G wholesale model plan.

Not only is December the Christmas season but it's also the month where we expect 5G to be launched by the Malaysian government. Digital Nasional Berhad is responsible for rollout the technology soon and the latest news has it that the commercial release date is 15 December 2021.

In late November, the government has actively been discussing 5G implementation. Telco companies will inevitably be heavily involved in the testing phase that's starting soon. And as expected, Telekom Malaysia (TM) is among the group.

While markets are opening up, the impact of COVID-19 has simply highlighted that our needs for fast and reliable WiFi (TV streaming, gaming, Internet) has never been higher. As everyone is now online and becoming used to being online, it also seems like our WiFi has never been slower too. 

To help out everyone, here are our Top 3 fast and easy tips to speed up your WiFi in your home.  We guarantee that You can do them on your own without any extra money or too much tech know-how. If you don't need to know why, just check out the Hot Tips below or read on for more details. If you've seen them already then scroll past all the Top tips for an alternative solution.

As our economic sector is slowly reopening, Opensignal is back once again with another report on Malaysians' mobile data experience. The last report was done in April 2021 just before the lockdown, so in this latest news - the data gathered was between 1 June until 29 August 2021 based on Celcom, Digi, Maxis, U Mobile and Unifi. 

Today, unifi quietly launched a new unifi Mobile 99 data plan promotion. For this launch, the SIM card is priced at RM59 (RRP: RM99) per month and it is on a limited time offer. 

Today, Opensignal returns once again with another new report. This time around, it's a new Mobile Network Experience Report April 2021 and the last one that they did was back in September 2020. According to the report, there are some big changes so read on below on everything you need to know.