Telling people the truth, I think DiGi which once used to be many Malaysian favourite choice has became the WORST telco now in the country with the highest number of drop calls and most expensive internet deals.

Many of their talents have left the company and replaced by unproductive ones over the last 3 years resulting in such a letdown.

Their daily internet plans are the most expensive even 3X as expensive as Maxis Hotlink's.

RM3 for 150MB while Hotlink charges RM5 for 600MB.

Their prepaid broadband is so sucky that upon finishing your expensive quota 3X more expensive than Hotlink's, your internet access is cut off immediately - not even slowed down total disconnect!

Whoever in DiGi who planned that prepaid broadband plan to replace the limited edition version should be SACKED immediately for digging the company's grave faster than before!

Also the same curse which once bugged Maxis/Celcom side such as offering too many confusing packages/plans is also starting to infect DiGi. Who knows if the unwanted or lousy staffs previously from Maxis/Celcom had jumped camp and corrupt DiGi?

Worst yet reading the stories from other blogs I've also encountered that DiGi customer service have now reached the same levels as once Hotlink.There was one I read complaining that their customer service officer could tell their customer that if he could not make emergency calls, they should call their customer careline to report immediately.

What a joke! If you are in an emergency situation at knife point you still want to call DiFi cust careline?
Die lar like dat!

http://www.malaysianwireless.com/2013/07/d...celcom-letters/

I don't blame Telenor - DiGi's parent company for this wait and observe policy. Maybe they're just waiting to sell the company off at the right time when they get the price tag done RIGHT.

DiGi says they're planning to spend MYR 650million over the next few years to upgrade their Tomorrow's Network.

Did you all know how much Telenor is spending for their sister company DTAC's Tomorrow HSPA/LTE network in Thailand?
USD1.3billion
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/56691.php
They also have better access in Thailand over the 850MHz/1800MHz spectrums.

P1 Networks will soon be followed by DiGi. They used to be the most exciting telcos back in those days but some party wasn't happy with their aggressive marketing sales strategies.

It's hard to do business when some government commission who is supposedly needed to be neutral in its stance forces the smaller players to share bandwidth with a incumbent monopoly in the same business instead.

As a result you can see DiGi's prepaid voice calls are now the most expensive in the industry as well as it's internet.
Newer players will continue to replace the old but business doesn't get anymore further because the public could feel that there's a cartel like structure controllinb behind the whole telecoms sector.

Cost per GB is cheaper than those days I completely agree.

On contrary to that, it seems our present day mobile internet charges has gotten even more expensive compared to years back.

Years back mobile backhauls and connectivity was limited and today we already have most our our base stations wired up with redundant fibre links which feed them with gigabits of data.

Even so the irony was that years back we had truly UNLIMITED access at full 7.2mbps for RM99 and those with quota are slowed down to even faster speeds than today - 384kbps after finishing what they subscribed.

Today Malaysian general quota exceed speed across all telcos is 64kbps/128kbps! Why are we moving backwards? Is bandwidth getting more expensive? I don't think so.

Why are we not getting something like 512kbsp-1mbps after we exceeded our quotas since LTE networks today do speeds of over 30mbps on most plans while base stations already are accommodating hundreds or gigabits of data on their backhaul links?

Our mobile telcos are still selling 384kbps mobile internet plans, and those who have used it would know how excruciating it is. Even Youtube videos on 144p wouldn't stream smoothly and you need to pay RM3 just for 150mb?
That's horrendous!

At the end, it's all about the money and revenues. Our telcos still think they can have it all their way even though they continue to make Malaysian subscribers as theit milk cows.

Just came back from Maxis press conf , earnings up 13.8% to 528million YoY.

Still believe the lies that subscribers are hogging their lines with a small percentage hogging over 80% of their capacity? If that is so how come every year their profits keep going up and up?

International capacity limited? How come fixed lines get away with UNLIMITED bandwidth while wireless who shares the same international submarine connectivity with them doesn't?

R&D is one of the most important divisions in an organization, the company I'm working in is a telco vendor spends a lot on R&D because that's how you remain competitive in the market.
Your customer wants to see what you can offer that others can't.

so its worth while to MNP to maxis ?
Already considering this time as got LTE capable device. 

Maxis launch CSFB at 8 Feb 2013...
https://new.maxis.com.my/content/maxis/en/a...0130208-en.html

I don't understand the speed.

Say for example HSDPA+ is 42mbps, why at most, even when im right next to the tower, i never reach this speed?

Malaysian fixed broadband sector has no competition except for very limited areas where Time and Jaring operates. The other mobile telcos were never serious in offering fixed broadband for desktop use because they are too caught up and confused in the traditional voice and texts lucrative markets.

Many of them only want the public to think that mobile internet is only confined to smartphones, iPads and tablets since they consume very little volume while they can continue milking the users like cows.

Fact is once you start using the modem on a desktop PC, the consumption of data becomes leapfolds from that of your mobile devices. There is high tendency that you would want to start streaming HD videos on your wide screen monitors and downloading big files/updates into your terabyte capacity HDD, don't you think so?

The mobile telcos don't understand this and none of them I can say is serious or even try to penetrate this sector. All I can say is that TM monopolizes this fixed broadband sector close to 100% except for very limited areas served by Time and Jaring. They really enjoy the comfortable position of not even having a single competitor that could offer an alternative.

They can safely bet with you that if you don't accept their monopolized unlimited DSL or Unifi packages, you can prepare yourself to pay through your nose with volume quota based wireless internet plans.

If we continue on getting those stingy quotas, how are we going to do cloud storage, IPTV, Netflix-like subscription and heavy videogame consoles/net apps updates?

It is not entirely true to say fixed broadband should not be associated with wireless models.

4-5years back both Time Broadband and Jaring had reached a certain level of success by offering the Webbit and SOMA Networks CDMA solutions that offered UNLIMITED fixed wireless broadband packages to users in cities upto 2mbps. It was until faster TM Streamyx and UniFi packages were introduced which caused their decline of use in urban areas.

Moreso moving forward from Rel. 8 Specs, early LTE has already been designed to incorporate simplification and adopt full data only services.

I'll share some important information to you about wireless resources base on rigorous studies made recently by telco vendor labs(vendor name witheld). Those who eager to know why Digi's 3G network and the other mobile telcos seem to have very frequent drop calls here's the answer:

It was discovered that data utilization which shared the same resources as fixed networks were not the cause of congestion in mobile telco networks but it was the high consumption of consistent L3 signalling(RRC signalling) that bogged their networks down

But rest assured the LTE specs beyond Rel. 8 has already made great improvements to improvise on this since it'll be optimized to handle pure data-play services including IP based VoLTE.

UMTS 3G networks used to have 5 RRC signalling states but with LTE onwards now they've simplified it to ONLY 2 for much greater efficiency - RRC_idle and RRC_Connected.

How inefficient UMTS for data compared to LTE?

Here are 3 scenarios:

With normal voice continuous calls - it only takes up 50 RRC signalling messages
Skype on idle in the background(using Android OS phone) 1 hr period - ~1400 RRC signalling messages
Use of Android MMO game for just 1/2hr period - 3000+ signalling messages

But this is no excuse for pure data WiMAX networks that was actually meant to provide fixed broadband services from the very start. Why did they end up getting confused and mixed up with package plans similar to UMTS/HSPA+ players?

Why Telcos don't upgrade to LTE-A once and for all?

Meanwhile, my modem is ready for FDD LTE 800Mhz
Bring it on TM, TM can easily kill every competitor.

For all the complains about Digi having piss-poor to no LTE coverage- I suspect it has something to do with Digi being majority foreign owned (Digi mostly owned by Telenor- Telecom Norway) compared to others which is majority local/crony owned. In other words, blame gomen cronyism.

then 100 Mbps is really talk kok.