Exciting. I need new internet services. There was this hype about AMAX but their site is down, and it's terribly expensive.

Currently using Maxis but hate the cap. I want something like Unifi with good speed.

What is dual play?

"initially covering 65% of the population of Peninsular Malaysia in one go, and 80% by January 2011." sounds good eh?

"this service could actually be available from as early as the middle of 2011." But it'll take awhile.

No word on speed?

pcbase would you please direct me to this "unlimited package" information since I cannot find it at all. Thanks.

Yeah but "launch" does not carry the same meaning as "available to customers".

For example, UMobile 42Mbps HSPA+ has been "launched" but they have not even set up the hardware/base towers and are not prepared to offer it to customers, as far as I know.

Please tell me how I can get this.


My internet is working fine but http://www.yes.my/ is not loading.

Congested? It won't load even after waiting or refreshing.

Could you post info?

Oh, I see, like the UMobile launch. It's an ahem launch.

At least we are getting somewhere.

The government minister said 2x companies have 100Mbps services available in March 2011, that better be true - not 100Mbps "service", but only 10Mbps or 3Mbps download...

Agree, Streamyx quality is bad. Don't use it anymore. What is your 4Mbps price per month?

And one cannot generalise Wireless broadband because there are all sorts or services from all sorts of companies, 3G, 3.5G, HSPA, HSPDA, GPRS, 2G, yada yada, and now supposed "4G / WiMax" and HSPA+...

And atrocious claims - e.g. UMobile has 42Mbps HSPA+ but only predicts average speeds of 3-10Mbps.

YTL/YES has not proclaimed their speeds yet.

In fact one of their "employees" just touted the website. But you know it doesn't say anything.

I'll see if I can get some tangible info.

LOL at P1 fake 4G... but we are powerless to stop it, short of a class action suit. But we are not (or at least most of us aren't) their customers anyway.

Airwaves are limited in bandwidth, base stations are limited, coverage is limited etc, but data volume is not. So a 6GB or 5GB cap is ridiculous.

I thought P1 has a 30GB cap plan (much more generous than your average 6GB plan).

Oh god. skint if you are right then that totally blows.

They don't even have a large enough number of base stations anyway, to saturate the entire country, or at least for major cities.

You can have different base stations together operating on different carrier frequencies, with the same signal broadcast. But yes, high frequencies limit the number of channels (different networks).

But they don't even have adequate base stations yet to cover every area, so this is moot. No use putting them too close together (if they operate on the same carrier frequency), but they should be everywhere.

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Added on November 6, 2010, 11:59 pmIt is not a bandwidth cap, it is a tiny volume cap, after which they cut your bandwidth (to virtually zero).

Your "tiered charge" system may be too complex and idealistic.

Nevertheless, heavy users are disadvantaged by the majority of plans and services available, because at the moment there is no service that provides affordable, yet high speed, and higher than a few measly GBs volume internet.

This post has been edited by LightningFist: Nov 6 2010, 11:59 PM

Agree with skint, MAJORITY of movies are not shown, TV is the same. Who wants shows 4 seasons late or movies that nobody else would ever care to watch...

Price is expensive, just like other services which charge a bomb after 5GB. Hence it is ineffective.

They need to get their priorities straight. Service > speed test.

A lot of promises have been made around this time - is any one going to keep them?

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Added on November 8, 2010, 3:27 pmOn YES' website it says 11+ more days.

But I am truly disappointed that it is a phone + internet service. No info on internet service itself.

This post has been edited by LightningFist: Nov 8 2010, 03:27 PM

Most of us have high latency, low speed internet.

This is not able to load webpages smoothly.

Assuming you do not watch tv, even youtube, news, stocks, websites for studies, email, are all tremendously slow.

High speed internet would greatly improve our quality of life in many respects.

In European countries and America they are making internet a basic necessity or human right.

So they are not funded by the government?

We shall see how good the service is and whether that matters.

Well, 512kbps = 64kBps, so still an ok speed, not great for downloading. But if it was stable, then good. I highly doubt this will be the minimum speed.

He might have said some crap but maybe he meant the minimum or smallest "package" bandwidth was 7Mbps.
I hope it is fast though. With my current internet I hit maximum 7.44Mbps but it usually goes at a quarter of that or less. But it's bloody capped.

9 sen for 3Mb/0.375MB?
Then 1MB = RM0.24
1GB = RM240
6GB = RM1440
30 GB = RM7200

This is crazy. Even if it were 9 sen for 3MB, it is RM180 for 6GB, which is UBER expensive.

Whoever posted that ad, online or elsewhere, just doomed YES. Because this info will spread.
And once Friday rolls around, and this is confirmed, GG.

No, No, and No!

I cannot believe someone here actually called this "cheaper than other ISPs". You must live in a fantasy world.

If 3Mb = RM0.09 that is terrible (Costs in excess of 7000 ringgit for 30 GB).

If 3MB = RM0.09 it is still very expensive (costs hundreds for 30GB) even for 6GB.

And don't bother saying Maxis etc can still be used at throttled speed without extra charges. Throttled speed is ~2kBps (bandwidth ~16kBps) so it is virtually zero and inaccessible.

This country's internet services for public consumers sucks, period.

LOL it is very unfortunate that this is extremely likely...