Any Allo sales lead who wants to answer his questions?

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You know those captchas which you need to solved are not child puzzles just to verify you as humans. They've other purposes such as to record your image canvassing data, your ping times to identify which region you're from and many other things. It isn't that simple.

Pertaining to your question, no Allo Technology S/B the data ISP division of TNB does not rent from others, it BUILDS its own last mile fibre network.

TM, TIME and TNB Allo all builds and operates their own individual last mile fibre networks but they allow layer 2/3 arrangements by other ISPs to route through them with their own accounts. From the OLT switches at the exchange until the fibre modem at the customer's premise is individually owned by them(Allo, TM or TIME) while they allow partnering ISPs to route their connections back to their data centres making use of their last mile infras.

About the overlapping of infra with existing TM coverage, it depends on the telco's budget and interests to provide competition in that particular area or not. If they feel that the area/housing garden is worth attacking or putting up the challenge to the already existing telco they they might have a go.

But I don't think Allo's original plan was to put up a direct fight with TM and steal all their customers away. They wanted to cover areas which were neglected by TM and comfortably have those areas to themselves such as the wide Blue Ocean strategy but unfortunately TM "JUMPED" and got grilled by political parties for their bad handling approach and thus they didn't want to lose out those areas to other players since they already served them copper for so many years.

You see, the strategy for deploying passive optics is to bring a certain "quantity" to an area to break even and achieve profitability. No point if you'd just pull a few strands of fibre to an area and service a few homes. Your maintenance alone will exceed your revenues unless the users a prepared to pay premium prices or dedicated P2P lines. A street cabinet can serve up to about 2000 ports per garden/area. If your area is already served by TM Unifi, do you think it might be a risk for a smaller ISP such as Allo to bet their stakes in those areas just to cover a few roads ignored by TM.

Also there's lots of considerations you need to put in mind, not only occupying ports, logical/virtual stuffs such as IP pool sizes, are most people on TM already tied with long contracts, bandwidth capacity, etc..

I think T company are purposely removing to avoid kantoi/complain by customer, so that they can sell their confuse naming scheme UniScam Lite/Standard/Mobile/Postpaid plan to the end users.

Also good way to avoid competitors to check, and avoid customer to do comparison on coverage like why no expand here or there.

Now can still check just need to submit ur phone number to get TAC. U just pura pura pick one package and then check ur location. Cuz for some place only have tm infra so tm no port maxis, digi celcom all say got coverage but will tell u no port.

My hopes and situation is probably very similar to yours. Area already covered by Unifi, chances of Allo overlapping is slim to none.

Business politics and rivalry can be very nasty in our country. Some of the larger ISPs do not want to expand their home fibre network not because they can't afford to but they fear many issues might arise with all sorts of risks they'll have to bear.

That's why they're more interested in deploying 5G. Easier and less hassle to their customers. Just collect the CPE modem, return home plug in the power cord and connected within secs. Speed wise in excess of gigabits and latency is said to rival fibre with 1ms to 1st hop(base station).

That way they can have better control of their pricing and subscription plans. No need expensive build outs, heavy cabling and complicated installations/drilling.

It is realizable as 5G equipments continue to drop in price in the near future. Only their base stations needs heavy fiberization. No need to wire up until the customer's home.

Considering our country's economy now many companies will have very tight budget now.

Bercham, Ipoh Gardens, Pasir Putih/Pinji, Simpang Pulai all not sure if they'll have 3rd phase of expansion returning back to Ipoh after Allo completes its expansion to Batu Gajah.

They're now also going after Penang, Kedah, and Johor after this.Need to allocate significant budget over those places.

Well @culain99 in our early discussion at this forum, some of us have given our point-of-view on why Allo doesn't cover the whole ipoh city. From the observation, Allo only rollout it service to area unserve by T× U××f× and some believe Allo don't want to overlap with it.

But when T× heard about Allo plan, T× have been aggressively this year by laying new cable and setting up FDC around ipoh city (noticeably at Pasir Pinji, Pengkalan, Menglembu area).

But don't lose hope, maybe in the future Allo might cover other area that is already covered by T×. An agent once told me this earlier "Rome wasn't built in one day".

Whether TNB Allo coverage will overlap with T×, no definite answer was given.

For the package IP address, it use Dynamic IP as stated in their website.
https://www.citybroadband.my/residential/
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that area already got UniFi which Allo no plan to overlapping with existing competitors.

Yes for business but not for residential for overlapping.

Allo have no brand presence. I do a quick survey in my local Taman FB Group, 'Akhirnya, apa pandangan anda jika Unifi/Allo datang ke Taman XXX jika, TM Unifi RM69/129 for 39/100mbps vs TNB Allo RM79/99 for 50/100mbps'
Result are 80% prefer to choose TM over a never heard before TNB Allo (inb4 they branding as CityBroadband Allo instead of TNB)

So thats why most pity consumer stucked with another 24 months contract under TM before they can switch over, if Allo decided to grab the market share.

Even I'm the person always up to date with latest tech news. I also get confuse with the plan.
Unifi Lite = Previously Streamyx and the Fibre (and/or VDSL) with 60GB Monthly Quota
Unifi (the Standard) = Normal Fibre or the mainstream different plan with tv box stupid bundle craps
Unifi Business = Normal Fibre but for Business
Unifi Air (Wireless Broadband) = The Webe (also known as P1 Wimax)
Unifi Mobile Prepaid (BEBAS branding) = Prepaid Mobile Plan
Unifi Mobile Postpaid = Postpaid Mobile Plan

There are more complex details each of it, by just reading above product name already confuse AF.

If Time/Maxis/Allo can provide coverage check on their website, why can't TM?

I really hope Allo comes to residential ares that are covered by UxxfX. For sure they might get a better market share then. I am one for a fact willing to pay for 1Gbps (current 300Mbps UxxfX plan).

Allo now have change their FDP into white color
https://www.facebook.com/AlloCBBWiFi/videos/204541104534022

Iirc, it takes around 3 to 4 months to setup on my TMN. Depend on how big is the TMN

Yes Allo (via City Broadband) does have voice call. Need to add RM20. You can refer to https://www.citybroadband.my/residential/ (Residential package) for more info.
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Cannot, your landline numbers belongs to TM unless Unifi joins Allo as one of their partner ISP but then again you can only retain it if you use Unifi as your ISP.

Other ISPs are not allowed access to TM's range of landline numbers unless in future they agree on a MNP for landlines as well like mobile networks.

From maxis to unifi, the number cant maintain.
I assume Allo will be the same

Basically, both Allo and U××f× dont share each other network as of now. Maybe in the future.

Same goes to Taman Pasir Putih, Shatin Garden, Rose Garden all the way down Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah(Tiger Lane) until Ipoh Gardens.

Plenty of business to grab there.

Maybe less priority because many of the areas there already covered by Unifi for many years despite some of them still under old copper Streamyx infra.

To take advantage of the extra added features such as fixed IP to all home users, FREEDOM DNS, symmetrical speeds, no VLAN tagging, no buffer bloat caps, DHCP authentication and 1Gbps, it is not possible that this conditions be deployed on the present TM HSBB network.

Moreover if they're jumping on TM HSBB, it would have already announced that major cities such as Penang, Alor Setar/Sg Petani, Kangar, Taiping, in the northern region be covered.

TNB has been tight lipped about their rollout in other part of Ipoh such as Ipoh Gardens etc. Many of the newer condos and apartments around that area are now under private open fibre arrangements such as the Upper East, Thompson, The Octagon, Majestic .

Here's a look at an example setup by XccessComm HSBB Sdn Bhd for the Upper East Condominium just off Tiger Lane. When they acquired Macro Lynx they had immediate access to such facilities.
http://thesun-epaper.com/Property/Septembe...publication.pdf