News & Reviews:   U Mobile

The pre-order for the Samsung Galaxy S24 Series is now live in Malaysia and it's not only from Samsung Malaysia, but also CelcomDigi, Maxis, U Mobile and Yes as well. If you're wondering which package plan to take, continue below to read all the perk offerings from each telco. 

In this short news, U Mobile quietly increased its data pool for both U Postpaid 38 and U Postpaid 68 plans. Initially, the data pool was 60GB and 200GB but got boosted up to 120GB and 300GB, respectively. 

Today, U Mobile announced its U Home Fibre home broadband plan (previously known as Ultra Unlimited Home Fibre Broadband) is now available to over 1 million more homes. By leveraging Time dotCom’s (Time) fibre infrastructure footprint, the home broadband plan is appearing more in high-rise buildings. 

After several delays, the Share Subscription Agreement (SSA) to hold equities in Digital National Berhad (DNB) has finally been signed by the 5 Malaysian mobile network operators (MNOs). As reported by Bernama, the SSA was signed today.

Today, U Mobile unveiled a brand-new range of 5G postpaid and prepaid plans. However, it's only for subscribers in Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan. With the new U Postpaid Borneo 38 plan, U Postpaid Borneo 68 plan, and U Prepaid Borneo 20 plan, the starting price is only RM20 per month.

Previously, we reported on the Ministry of Communications and Digital’s (KKD) announcement that the DNB 5G share subscription agreement (SSA) with 5 telco companies would finally be signed last week. However, this never materialised and KKD Minister Fahmi Fadzil has clarified that there are still hiccups to be rectified.

The Ministry of Communications and Digital (KKD) has revealed that 410.59 million unsolicited Short Message Services (SMS) were blocked in the first 9 months of this year. Its Deputy Minister, Teo Nie Ching further revealed that 19 million SMS containing hyperlinks were blocked from 2 May until September 2023.

It's been a while since we had a report on our local telcos' mobile network performance. But Opensignal is back again with another one. The data collection started from June until the end of August 2023 and this is what Opensignal says in the latest Mobile Network Experience Report in Malaysia.

In conjunction with Merdeka, U Mobile has announced that its U Postpaid 68 plan is being upgraded. Starting from 1 September 2023, the refreshed U Postpaid 68 plan will offer double the data quota at 200GB 5G/4G data monthly for the same price of RM68 monthly. 

In light of the announcement by Fahmi Fadzil, Minister of Communication and Digital, regarding the new RAHMAH 5G package and RAHMAH Public Servant Postpaid Incentive yesterday, it's now confirmed that all our local telcos will be supporting the government's initiative. This includes CelcomDigi, Maxis, Telekom Malaysia (unifi mobile), U Mobile and YTL Communications (Yes).