I did a pre-launch registration without knowing the actual cost of service and thought it was just some kind of "grab your username now" promo as advertised. After reading so many -ve feedbacks from the internet, I never bother about it until today I saw your posting.......I immediately login to check my account and I saw a RM-50 in my account balance too. I called them but unfortunately customer service not working during weekend. Can any one explain how to read YES billing format ?

Me too. I pre-registered last time. But didn't have the time to make my way to their Yes flagship store to confirm my registration.

They can't force it down people's throat like that.

Pre-registered = pre-deducted RM50 activation

I guess when you pay RM50 activation when you buy their hardware, the -RM50 will be zeroed.
If you don't actually use their service, then after the due date for activation of pre-registered accounts, your account and 018 number will be terminated.

I pre-registered as well, and I encounter the same that my a/c having -RM50.

I called the customer service today, according to the customer service, the activation fee waiver ONLY applicable if u sign up and take the Huddle + iPad. 

As for the -RM50 at pre-registered user's a/c, if u did not activate it by 19-Dec-2010, your a/c will be automatically delete from their system.

Yes broadband review from KL to Penang.

Soya Cincau

maybe their new signup already slow down then come up with sth to attract ppl ........ saw their booth not much ppl.... and TM unifi and Time Fibre starting attack now... when walk around kl can see the Time fiber optic package banner hang here and there...TM unifi set up many mobile booth now, just like celcom bb...

really look like a war... just now outside a mbb, the celcom booth already been there for a long time...now on the opposite side (car parking site) got a new TM unifi booth , maybe unifi booth not strategic can't get much customer, then their 2 promoter walk to the mbb front door, where also the area of celcom booth, almost gaduh those guys ... 

Exactly!
They may claim No Validity, No Expiry but instead introduce new condition - "MINIMUM USAGE REQUIREMENT"
Same same

This YTL sucks a lot of our money in getting billion in term of power subsidy to sustain their other venture! It would be lonely to drive alone in the Highway ! Hope they dun find way to sell back to Govemen when they can't sustain thier business any more !

you can't calculate it like these.

if you using 3GB and above, there is rebate going on. E.g. using 4GB, then RM23 rebate. If using 5GB++, then 30% discount and so on....

depend to your usage. for me, i dont streaming video like youtube or listen to music when using broadband. just need a mobile which can check office mail, do some work and occasionally browse internet. thus is feasible to me, pay as you use....

wonder 5gb per month of usage will equate to how much after rebate .

how do they calculate normal surfing ? and how do they calculate if we took 1 hr to read certain website page

anyone experience user please contribute

not load lah.

taking sweet time to concentrate and read
edit: just discover , actually YES website did have a usage calculation . 250 hrs surfing at RM30 per month but youtube is expensive

Actually, YES costs are based on the amount of data transferred. So what you pay is the amount of data that makes up that web page. It does not matter how long you take to read the page.... take your time! You can even leave it on overnight and it will not use any extra data (and therefore will not cost you an extra sen).

Most web pages are only a few hundred kilobytes in size, so that they can be loaded faster. As such you can browse thousands of webpages for 1GB of data... eg. 100KB per page = 10 pages per 1MB, or 10,000 pages for 1GB.

Of course these days there are many pages which build in Flash graphics and even let you view video/YouTube within the page itself (without having to go to another site). In this case the amount of data transferred can be much more.

Nevertheless, even with heavy browsing, IMHO you won't touch 1GB a month, unless you do a lot of video.

I think immediately. The sales person asked me if I wanted assistance to set up the Huddle, so I said hey why not. Looked like the connection was live at the store itself (Lot10).

Confirmed that I linked up less than an hour after that.

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Added on December 31, 2010, 8:07 pmI've done a side-by-side breakeven analysis with currently available broadband services against YTL Yes, purely on the basis of cost (not looking at quality).

My criteria:

- packages must provide at least 1Mbps. Less than that is a sad excuse for broadband.
- generally no promo considered (DiGi's an exception, because I generally like their service... so sue me)

The results:



Conclusion:

- There is nothing cheaper than YTL Yes if your data volume is less than 2.3GB per month. Above this until 3GB DiGi and Maxis have cheaper packages but only until 3GB at which point they will throttle. So if you use under 2.3 GB most of the time and sometimes exceed 3GB, still want full speed and are willing to pay for it, YTL Yes is still a better deal.

- For the next tier usage (10GB to 20GB) YTL Yes is only cheaper until 3.7GB (at DiGi speeds during promo), 4.7GB (at P1 or Maxis speeds), 5.1GB (at DiGi non-promo speeds) or 7.1 GB (at Unifi 5Mbps speeds). These only throttle at a min of 6GB to 60GB, depending on the service. So IMHO if you don't routinely exceed 5GB per month, then YTL Yes is more cost-effective; however, things can get pretty expensive if you go beyond this limit all the time.

- For the heavy usage tier (Above 10GB) no need to talk lah... as expected YTL Yes is NOT the service for you.
Please flame me lightly where I got it wrong...

I found out that I can link cabled to the Huddle and disable WiFi. This effectively secures the connection; however, you are right ... since YTL Yes is PAYU I also constantly worry that someone compromises my ID/password and eats up my credits.

Must suggest to YTL some ways to mitigate against this, eg: ID linked to a list of registered devices, so that only these devices can draw down on that ID's credits

Not to worry just make sure that your account has sufficient credits inside and not in excess will ensure that you won't be compromised.
RM100 is more than enough inside.

There's some concern about the RM1199 Free Huddle plan though which gives you a free Huddle with RM1200 credit.
If someone gets hold of your password say bye bye to your 40 months of RM30 1GB pre-payment.

So make sure your account has just enough.If your password is stolen, you'll know right away that someone has been using your line even when you didn't touch the account.

it is prepaid system, no money no need to top up.
you won't get shocking bill.

Nope and not recommended as well. With a personal mifi device, you're better off setting WPA2 and a strong password.

Also the negative balance only happened when they gave the complimentary 10GB last month.

Now no more, you won't get the negative balance and internet access will cut off once hits RM0.
A minimum of RM30 will be deducted every month or else if it doesn't find that amount , you'll get a negative in this case.

That's why don't top up too much in your account. Those who subscribed to the prepaid RM1200 with Free Huddle plan have to be very careful or else you'll be paying RM50 for the next 24months while still having to top up a minimum of RM30 for the next 2 years to keep your account alive.

surely not recommended YTL for heavy downloader...

Yup... the Huddle can indeed restrict access via MAC address....



However, since it is possible to fake a MAC address, this is only an additional precaution. A good WPA2 & secure password must still be used in addition to this.

On the negative balance, I think that is an anomaly due to their deduction of RM50 for registration fee....so before you load up the credits you will see negative. Also, during the first few weeks there was a free 10GB bonus access during which time the "meter" read -RM50.....

Can't find any means to cap usage.... I think YTL wouldn't like the idea .....

YES, can be hacked?

OMG, users will lose their credit in no time

there are numerous hacking too around too

Any idea how we can view usage? Credit seems to be going down quite fast... But i like the huddle or turtle shell. Haha

dude u need some brain fix
thr earn thr and use thr also wont feel exp
earn using USD use USD
we malaysia use MY dollar buy EXPENSIVE MY Server
even compare singapore dollar to dollar its even cheaper then malaysia

Yes follows Clearwire as their role model.

Did you all know that Clear Wimax packages comes with unlimited data usage and no speed caps?

http://www.clear.com/packages

They shame Verizon's LTE service.

Don't use WEP.
Use WPA+WPA2 security and TKIP+AES encryption, this one more secure.