News & Reviews:   Celcom

How's going, TechNavers? You better be celebrating Mother's Day and if not, at least wish yo mama one! Anyway, news seem to have died down a little. While there are some rumours here and there, the only news that are worth talking about are Samsung QLED 8K TV series has arrived in Malaysia, budget-friendly Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL were announced, Telenor and Axiata have merged together as one, and Facebook Dating is now live on your app.

Today, Celcom Axiata Berhad is excited to launch a new RM 1 Unlimited Internet from Xpax's new Ultra Hour Pass. This can be done by simply login into the Celcom Life app anytime and anywhere at the "Buy More" section.

So here's some breaking news, Digi's shares are apparently put on hold in the morning as Telenor Group went into a discussion with Axiata Group Berhad to combine their telecom and infrastructure assets in Asia. After several hours of waiting for the official news, it has been confirmed that both Telenor and Axiata have agreed to merge their business together.

How are y'all doing? This week is Marvel's Avengers Endgame week and the whole world is going crazy about it. In conjunction with the most anticipated movie release of the year, OPPO has collaborated with Marvel to make an awesome OPPO F11 Pro Marvel's Avenger Limited Edition! There isn't much different from the standard F11 Pro, except that it has a 128GB storage and for just RM1399, it's a deal breaker. 

Today, Celcom Axiata Berhad has signed a new agreement on joining IC5G at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). IC5G is an initiative by UTM and Ericsson back in 2015, where its research and development on 5G technology is conducted for the benefit of students and industry professionals.

Earlier today, telco companies such as Celcom, Maxis, U Mobile, DiGi and more have showcased their 5G solutions in Putrajaya earlier today. At the test bed, many of the telcos gave a brief introduction to the 5G technology as well as the benefits that this new network will bring such as higher bandwidth with speeds of up to or even more than 1.6Gbps, lower latency, greater stability, better reception in a crowded area and so on. The network has also been used to conduct a remote brain surgery, in which the surgeon and the patient were more than 3000km apart.

Opensignal is back with their Mobile Network Experience Report for April 2019 and this time Maxis and Celcom are vying for the top spot with each retaining clear positions like Download Speed Experience (Maxis) and 4G Availability (Celcom). Both are neck and neck in Video Experience though while Maxis retains best Latency Experience and Celcom achieves best Upload Speed experience, for a draw for top spot.

Today, Celcom has announced that its own eSIM (embedded SIM) package is now available. According to their website, only three phones are eligible for eSIM which are the Apple iPhone XS 64GB, iPhone XS Max 64GB and the iPhone XR 64GB model starting from RM58 per month.

How are you peeps doing? It has been a somewhat quiet week in the tech industry. Huawei Malaysia wasted no time bringing the Nova 4e into Malaysia even before its China counterpart officially announced it. The vivo V15Pro and V15 have also just been released recently and we got some nice photo samples. But perhaps the most interesting one is when Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp servers were down and everyone panicked. Oh, those poor Instamodels and influencers, we totally "feel" you.

5G seems to be quite a hot topic this year amongst Malaysians. Within the first quarter of 2019, at least four notable 5G smartphones made an appearance at the MWC 2019, Maxis has already begun its 5G trial in Cyberjaya, and Celcom plans to use 5G beyond just faster downloads. So why is 5G such a big deal? Well, that's what we are going to talk about in this article about the future of 5G in Malaysia (and why you should care).