If you're on contract definitely have to pay penalty (and probably not worth it to convert). Wait till out of contract, definitely got different promo then.

Yesterday I went to TMPoint and the lady was convincing me to convert my RM149 to RM139 rather than apply a new one (my intention) and then cancel the old one. I mentioned it's because I want a replacement router, so she said the new contract will also renew 1 year warranty for router, so pandai pandai la.

My router actually IS giving issue, but on and off only (cannot access the admin page). Any advise on how to ensure it will have issue when the technician come?

My 30Mbps update took hold yesterday night di. Good and solid, and fortunately no 90% club membership =p

In ideal connection scenario LTE is faster than 50Mbps. But what he was saying is quite simple. 50MBps is not 'speed' in terms of how fast you're going, it's 'speed' in terms of how much you can get at a time.

Webpages aren't normally very big data wise, so the 'fast' you're thinking about is mostly latency. How long it takes to respond. That one won't change much between a good 1Mbps streamyx connection and a 50Mbps unifi connection.

His analogy of car on highway is accurate. If you have more lanes then your downloads will get faster (can use multiple trucks at the same time) but the speed of your individual car won't change much.

No, this is definitely not true. Any competent router can update WAN IP address etc. without a reboot. My 3rd-party router easily hits multi-month uptimes, unless I decide to reboot it for some reason or other (or power cut).

If TM is directly updating your firmware over-the-air then this can explain the reboots, but this doesn't happen very often I believe.

So if I just only upgraded my RM149 10/10 plan to RM139 30/10 plan, I can pay RM10 per month to get back RM149 50/30?

Sure boh....

Any bonanza 139 customer get to +RM10 to go to 50 MBps?

You can call and scold if it makes you feel better, but there's a contract you agreed to, so don't expect TM to be so kind-hearted as to just release you from that.

Can consider upgrading to 50mbps for 189 Bonanza price. That one you can just ask for, no need to scold. I'm on the 139 Bonanza which I feel is a better deal, but if you're already gonna pay RM179 why not add RM10 to get 50 MBps?

Did you even read my post? I'm saying that:-

a) I'm on 139 bonanza

b) He (who is on RM179 30 MBps) should call and ask to upgrade to the RM189 Bonanza 50 mbps.

It's not about offended or not, this is a public forum, don't simply post wrong info.

I also interested if bonanza can upgrade, but waiting for someone to try.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. If TM really raise prices means either our currency gone Zimbabwe style or something drastic like that. You think you'll still be worrying about Unifi prices then?

Regarding ports you can just call 100, that CS able to check ports in your area.

I got 'upgraded' from RM149 (free upgrade to 10) to RM139 bonanza with renew 2 years contract direct from TMPoint. My parents also same. This was before Bonanza Plus came out, so I suspect that's the reason.

Those who simply say "TM won't let you reduce price"... sembang kencang only?

Exorbitant profits? Citation required... Telekom very profitable meh?

I walk in and ask to terminate and apply, the lady said 'very mafan that way, come I just straight convert for you'.

Dude, do you know the difference between revenue and profit? Profit from the link you sent is about 1 billion a year. On 11 billion costs/spend. Maybe about 10%. If you consider that exorbitant profit then... I really dunno what to say.

Eventually once coverage is much better their profits will go up, but currently while they're rolling out fibre to more and more areas their profits won't be very much at all. It's darn expensive to put infra up. Not to mention the cost of the actual bandwidth itself...

Quite old video, but explains the costs involved. Don't expect price to go down very much unless government pour money in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBbV2elOBE&feature=youtu.be

Yes I started with RM149 VIP5 4 years ago, and go the free upgrade before budget announcement. Never got the RM169 offer some others got back then, so stayed at 10/10 when others were moving up to 30/10 and then 50/20.

Now 'upgraded' to RM139 with another 2 year contract, without calls. I get 150 free minutes to all from my mobile telco, my wife also the same, so calls not important. Save RM20 a month better.

Subang Jaya, I went to USJ Taipan TMPoint. But my specific area only one port available when I called 100. So it's not a lot of ports. I think it's just that I was early enough to catch the period before Bonanza Plus, and that Bonanza Plus is TM reaction to many customers converting down just to save RM10.

Ah I see you prefer throwing around political opinion rather than fact. Thanks, not interested. Using our mobile telco market as example is amazing too, since last I checked there's way more complaints about mobile telcos than about TM....

That Voice STD20 (Free) is the free calls right?

Good attitude. A lot of complaints about 'unfair treatment' miss the point. When you signed a 2 year contract, the company would be stupid to just allow you to downgrade when you haven't completed it (and if you have, why not just cancel it?).

Imagine if TM charge you for usage (like TNB and Syabas do) instead of for speed.... mana boleh compare like that? The main difference is that TNB/Syabas are administrating infra paid for and installed by federal funds, TM is using funds generated from their activities to set up infra. That's why they have contract 24 months (TNB/Syabas no such thing).

Think the other way, if you don't wanna renew contract, you'll have to pay high 3 digits at least for a decent router. What's wrong with renewing contract if you're planning to use the next 2 years (e.g. own house, job stable di)?