then the telco can earn more through top-up plan

u know how lucrative of telecommunication biz is ...

is LTE modem alr in Malaysia Market?

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Added on August 4, 2012, 3:10 pmis LTE modem alr in Malaysia Market?

This post has been edited by jki: Aug 4 2012, 03:10 PM

Yes, buy if you dare to take the risk for such expensive hardware

The only confirmed compatible hardware is Huawei E398

wait 20 yrs... becoz we're living in a corrupted world

yea u rite......

the main aim of the telco is profit

Then i will stick HSPA+ for 20 years....lol

hehe, telco won't allow that...

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Added on August 6, 2012, 1:15 pmnot quite accurate info.

any LTE modem with unlocked status and compatible LTE frequency band then can be used for local LTE. 2600MHz + 1800MHz. same with singapore. ipad/iphone with US LTE band then cannot use local LTE, run in 3G HSPA+ mode. btw, a LG LTE smartphone version now can support local LTE band as well.

some LTE modem now is even lower price than 3G mode only 42Mbps modem, particularly compared with the E372 rocket high price. we will wait see how much the 2nd hand resale value of E372 in 4 months later... some buying LTE modem now are not main concerned for LTE usage, but seeing a lower price of a 3G 42mbps instead.



This post has been edited by coolstore: Aug 6 2012, 01:15 PM

celcom user dont waste your money with 42mbps modem.

Who knows, just to be on the safe side as I dont think anyone have the access to those facilities except Telco related field.

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Added on August 8, 2012, 2:12 amWeird stuff is Celcom seem to be very committed in LTE project and even openly published their test results.

This post has been edited by blacktubi: Aug 8 2012, 02:12 AM

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdacomparer&i..._4g_lte_tablets

there are LTE2600 tab already

This post has been edited by wkkm007: Aug 14 2012, 08:35 PM

My area 3g also cannot get, LTE lagi bad.

Digi

ya, more LTE products coming out towards this year end ... tablets... smartphone... (again a new market for them to sell again to (same) buyers when ppl upgrading their existing device)

next year may seeing new market trend that considering a smartphone without LTE support is just like buying a smartphone without 3G support now...

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Added on August 15, 2012, 11:46 amchange to other telco, if ur area covered by umobile, change to it - also competitive pricing and far better network performance (umobile also going to roam with maxis network october later)

This post has been edited by coolstore: Aug 15 2012, 11:46 AM

nice thread & good info from TS.

i'm sick with some forummer in WTS thread tried to sell of their locally unsupported LTE phones, claiming it was LTE, laju bla bla bla...if not supported locally, how to laju?noob!to me, it's indirect cheating!

Anyone know how is this LTE going to be implemented?

Will it utilise simcard like the current 3G (HSPA+/WCDMA) , just a simcard or like YES, no simcard but using ID , like Streamyx/UniFi?

Wat will happen to the current 3G users, will they be offered upgrade packages or that LTE will act as supplement to the current 3G. This is where the dual usage modem , Huawei E398 come into play, simcard for 3G/HSPA+/DC and the modem itself using ID to connect like YES?

Anyone can shed some light to this?

Thanks

I can confirm it will be using a Simcard just like normal.
You can authenticate to LTE network like normal when 3G comes into play too, the thing is I can't confirm is whether can old user aka legacy plan user get LTE QoS

Base on today Maxis trend of keep pushing 42mbps, I highly doubt they will give normal user the 100000 QoS

This post has been edited by blacktubi: Aug 15 2012, 01:40 PM

so meaning, it will be 3G simcard and LTE simcard.

3G simcard QoS will be 42000/8640 and LTE simcard QoS will be 10000/20000

Will current 3G users offered new LTE package or "force" them to migrate/upgrade to LTE?

Pls bear in mind that 3G is widely available BUT NOT LTE as only major town will be LTE READY come 2013.

I would hope that current 3G customers can retain the current package, Legacy,Unlimited99 or wat ever package that they are using and offer this LTE as an added platform, but in doing so nobody will take LTE as LTE might be very costly as the "Economics of Scale" will not be met too

This post has been edited by digilife: Aug 15 2012, 01:48 PM

Just hope 42000 can be unlimited forever that's good
I doubt can the really congested Maxis Network have chance to break 50mbps

This post has been edited by blacktubi: Aug 15 2012, 02:03 PM

Now Maxis is selling more Hotlink Broadband (up to 42Mbps) to jam up the network, in doing so, current postpaid Data users might be "forced" to upgrade to LTE,

See how clever Maxis is.

LTE same backbone, same RAN with 3G
So, worsen the congestion even more
Unless 1 day Maxis decided to increase backbone bandwidth, then different story

no worry, won't be simless like wimax devices. look at LTE modem/phone/tablet, already know simcard needed.

and would be all in 1 simcard - ie. if LTE network no in coverage, will auto switch to 3G. no need worry about this.

both 3G and LTE will stick together - (see our 3G network case- being running so long, still got ppl saying just getting EDGE signal). other countries also doing this way now.

and this is interesting part:

imagine u r the management of telco responsible of maximising 'value' for shareholders , not to get [replaced] should members not happy at agm, what would u do to maximising profits and keep company growing.. (hehe, then with this idea behind, u would probably know how telco will do)

similarly as streamyx vs unifi, as ppl claiming streamyx quality degrading due to (xxxxx), then ppl lean to sign up unifi fiber (get the idea?)


** btw, hotlink simcard now can use maxis 3g on usb dongle also? then i go get 1 try today - to help congest the network a bit **

This post has been edited by coolstore: Aug 16 2012, 01:22 PM