*** UPDATE *** Maxis FTTH SUCKS big time !!! 40Gb quota strictly will be in force even in their 1st month of operation, the speed will be throttled to 10% which is only around 0.6Mb !!! BOYCOTT - don't sign up, cancel your interest registration !!! Let them dig their own grave !!!
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Maxis FTTH (Fiber-to-the Home) already launched 1st Sept 2010 in Bandar Utama Phase 11 & Phase 12, and I am using it now !
I stay in Bandar Utama Jalan 12/7, on 1st Sept, a team technical crew came to install the new fiber broadband from Maxis.
Another crew of relations officers also dropped by my home, with a hamper of gifts, a video shooting team & a carricature artist.
The installation process does take up quite a long time, as they are all on a sharp learning curve.
At one point, there were more than 10 techincal people from both Maxis & Huawei in my house, doing all the necessary checks.
There are 3 sets of equipments after the installation. A Huawei-Echolife ONT terminal, a Maxis-Thomson RGW residential gateway & a Maxis-Aztech DECT cordless phone.
There is only 1 package on offer at the moment, 6Mbps.
They say later will have upgrade packages from 6Mpbs, up to 24Mbps.
There is no IPTV included in the package, it will be added later, as they are still doing vigorious testing.
The offer price for the 1st batch of early-bird subscribers is RM118 per month, free for the first 2 months, and free installation costs.
The DECT phone also come with free :
i) unlimited calls to a Maxis fixed line number
ii) 500 minutes per month to a Maxis mobile number
iii) 200 minutes per month to United States, Singapore, China or Hong Kong
For time being, I am still not sure about the FUP download limit.
Guess I will find out soon, as I try to use & download stuff.
I believe this Maxis offering will be a strong competition to TM Unifi 5Mbps package of RM149 per month.
I have attached some pictures.
That's all my report for now.. going to enjoy more high-speed broadband now !



This post has been edited by toofriggingslow: Oct 9 2010, 11:03 AM