Hopefully it's not a sabotage case:

Congestion kinda bad at popular areas, hopefully Celcom is monitoring their network and taking preventive measures. With so many incoming MNP customers and also their MVNO partners, they better be doing something about this.

While many are coming in to Celcom, some did not stay long and ported out due to either poor coverage at certain areas or poor network performance.

Yes, with the extra congestion and weekend data, people are happily utilising their data on weekends. Not to forget that Celcom is not strict with heavy data hogging applications like torrent etc.

Could be and probably how Celcom is trying to handle the situation. Were you downloading anything or left it idle?

The first step to improving the network, have new equipments. I think Celcom will be starting a network upgrading exercise soon, similar to what DiGi did few years back.

Seems like Celcom is being clear that they are going to focus on the postpaid war.

Yes, there's always a T&C that will clear them off to revise plans should they want to do so.

It's bad news for those who have been hammering away during burung hantu hours but for the rest it is good news. Honestly ever since they introduced unlimited usage during burung hantu hours, can really feel the impact on Celcom's network, more so when many are porting in to Celcom.

Actually instead of putting a 10GB cap now, it would be better to somehow throttle or give least priority to bandwidth hogging apps like torrents under Fair Usage Policy and that should do it. So normal downloads via HTTP/FTP can go on as normal and torrents would be given least priority.

Due to burung hantu changes?

I thought all along only RM20 for 1GB for FIRST Blue and Gold? Only the old plans still have RM50 for 5GB.

With such fierce competition, not surprising if it's a sabotage case to add more fire to the congestion.

It's a problem with the network at your area.

Use VPN as a temporary solution until it's fixed.

In Malaysia, they usually only guarantee about 10mbps for 4G speeds.


This was from DiGi's FAQ:

So DiGi guarantees a minimum 5mbps for LTE, in a separate FAQ, for LTE-A they guarantee minimum of 10mbps. That pretty much sums up the definition of 4G LTE speeds in Malaysia.


This post has been edited by OKLY: May 12 2016, 10:50 AM

Is this principal or supplementary line that you are talking about? For supplementary lines under 1+5 plan, you are given 500MB of data usage monthly and even after exceeding it, you'll be able to continue using at 64kbps speed.

https://www.celcom.com.my/personal/plans/first/1plus5

No, if you have outstanding bill they should have sent written notice and follow-up calls before blacklisting if the outstanding amount is still not cleared.

So how you dealt with it? Just clear off the outstanding amount at Celcom?

http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/05/145535/...ts-big-3-telcos

Analyst believes/speculates that Celcom could have the most subscribers when they release their numbers this 25th May. So it should be Celcom > DiGi > Maxis based on size of subscriber base.

Another point to consider is at the same time, many new Celcom customers are also porting-out either to DiGi or back to Maxis again as many find that Celcom's network is not satisfactory. Will Celcom then introduce an even greater plan to hold on to the number 1 spot?

I'd like to see them maintain the "promo price" at RM80 but revise it closer to DiGi's Postpaid 80 that gives 7GB + 3GB weekend. Even if Celcom does not follow 100%, can always do a 6GB + 4GB weekend.

Whichever telco (from the big 3) that offers 10GB all-day data for RM80 better have their network well-prepared for another wave of port-in customers.

Not sure if there's any upgrading going on at my housing area, I used to get below 20mbps but today I'm able to achieve 40mbps.



This post has been edited by OKLY: May 16 2016, 09:34 PM