No they dont, truth is, it only matters after they lay a backbone.
Lets say you're in a streamyx area, you have 30 would be subscribers to unifi who are current streamyx users, but there is no backbone/fiber equipment to the area required for unifi. Verdict: TM will not care.

If your area just got a backbone/fiber equipment for unifi, but from the exchange to your housing area is not wired yet but you have 30 people interested, TM will wire in about 3-9 months.

So in conclusion it doesnt do a thing. Unless however there is great demand in the greater area TM will not expand unifi and the reasons are 2 fold. First is TM's own internal politics play, they dont care about their customers only their image, 2nd is the local councils delaying TM, either with their crazy chargers/requirements or something else that both parties not satisfied with.

Being a current TM customer is far worse than being a new TM customer, its how they keep you in contract. You gotta stop, then go get it again just to get the best offers. Astro/maxis is even worse in this regard though.

This post has been edited by System Error Message: Aug 19 2018, 03:51 AM

thats because in your area there was a backbone to it with a cabinet of the right equipment for them to deploy unifi to your area. So it only speeds up their deployment if they have the infrastructure to support it to your area, otherwise it wont come unless there is great demand in your greater area. They dont bother with expected future demands.


To be clear, its our duty to annoy TM to improve their infra and provide upgrades to existing and new customers. Their inconsistency in pricing and use of old equipment is very very low of TM. For instance many streamyx users are actually on ADSL 1 while some are on ADSL 2+, whereas in australia 10 years ago they were all on ADSL 2+ and were kept on it because their government were too dumb to realise the need for better internet.

Uploads determine how good our internet is, not downloads. DSL and cable was a very asymmetrical technology because that cabinet would consume a lot of power whereas your modem only consumed a few watts, hence the asymmetrical nature. Now we are not limited by technology and TM is following the same path as a lot of bad ISPs. Even american ISPs have learnt their lesson because of google and are spreading out full symmetrical gigabit fiber optics but like malaysia it is not done in a fair manner, and by that i mean those that dont have the infra in their area deal with super expansive slow internet. They also realised this problem in the US so made all sorts of links needed to improve the bandwidth to these areas, either by a massive powerline or wireless (both the wifi we use and also LTE).

TM's problem is that once you subscribe to them, you will be less likely to quit, because of lack of competition. Your current options are only either TM or maxis. Celcom wired broadband only covers a small area, same with TIME. So TM knows that even if you quit and complain you wont have any other choice, other than to take on a new 2 year contract.

Google fiber is very different, they treat both their new and existing customers well to the point where existing ISPs showed just how much money they had when they started bribing cities to keep out google.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re0VRK6ouwI

This post has been edited by System Error Message: Aug 19 2018, 11:35 AM

not weird, basically means they didnt wire your street to the cabinet. But since unifi is already in your area, you can get some signatures and go to TM to get unifi. Or you can set up a p2p wifi with one of the nearby houses using a 10KM capable 2 channel wifi ac p2p setup and ask one of the houses with unifi, you subscribe your own, modem stay at their house with one wifi point, and align to your house.

but they didnt say they would be covering your area, they were talking about the unifi upgrade, not the coverage improvement.

for TM services. If your line got issue or for technical support.