The decision is quite silly actually then, why in the first place they supply a 4-port fibre modem(ONT) to customers then if their policy is only to restrict 1 ISP per premise.

Even Google Fiber Jack, France SFR, TNB Allo also supply single port mini ONT only to their customers.

4-port fibre modem(ONT) more opportunity to pocket money in tenders?

The reason why Nucleus Connect Singapore provides a 4 port ONT(only 4 ethernet ports with no phone jacks) was because they allowed upto 4 simultaneous ISPs per fibre modem each supplying their own routers.

If you only allow 1 ISP per premise at any time, why you supply a 4 port ONT?
This contradicts the reason between both ways.

Just be frank, they don't want customers to switch easily and they want to monopolize the line prioritizing their own Unifi brand.

The other reason is that Unifi routers will use port 1 of the 4 ports while other competing ISPs use port 2.
Port 1 will be capped higher than your subscribe plan while port 2 which is for other ISPs will always be capped exactly as your subscribed plan giving you a "buffer bloat" effect which results in speeds lower than what you subscribe because of TCP overheads.

If they were to be like TNB allo all ISPs including its own City Broadband use only 1 single ethernet port, then everyone gets the same treatment and rule without the "buffer bloat" condition which only applies to ethernet port 2.

These are TM's dirty monopolistic tricks to make their own Unifi brand look better than its competitors sharing their network.

That is why there are ISPs who are unwilling to join TM's HSBB until today such as TIME to expand their coverage. They have less control over their pricing plans due to TM's wholesale arrangements, depend on TM to provide enough ports for customers and subjected to TM's routing at least for the first 2 hops before reaching their own network.

They rather place their hope on 5G wireless to skip TM's last mile but build their own fibre backhaul directly to base stations. The interests for fixed wireless and 5G is now catching up in many developed countries where fibre infra is already widely deployed like Japan.

Ask why so, many Japanese people say it's hassle free, no need to wait for troublesome installation appointments, wiring and drilling. Just either collect their modems from the customer centers or couriered directly to them. Just turn on the modem and do some minor configuration and already up online.

That is the reason of TNB Allo emergence. TIME weren't keen to do landed as well.
It'll be too costly to build the last mile all for yourself when you're already a major mobile network other than expanding your backhaul networks to fiberised base stations.

Maxis does serve a very limited landed housing areas, such as Sierramas and BU. Also they do wire up commercial buildings and apartments/condos with their own fibre infra just like Time. Just that they need to allocate their investment for upcoming 5G network buildouts.

Celcom has its East Malaysia fibre network buildout called Celcom Timur.

If 5G is coming in just a few years why bother building the last mile overlapping with matured players such as TM, Time or TNB Allo. Instead save it for 5G instead while try to make arrangements with as many wholesale last mile providers outside TM such as TNB Allo, Celcom Timur and SOFIA Sarawak.

Currently I think the home FTTH market in many developed countries such as Japan, Singapore and Europe already saturating. That's why they can afford to look at building 5G but Malaysia's fibre coverage is still not as expansive as them.

Our telcos are already building their fibre networks quietly in preparation for fiberization of 5G/4G LTE-A base stations since late 2018 just that they don't want to complete the stretch to homes and premises.

Maxis for example has been planting fibre all over major cities across Malaysia like this:

https://malaysiafiber.blogspot.com/2019/04/...-broadband.html

https://malaysiafiber.blogspot.com/2019/04/...-broadband.html

Banks and large corporations can subscribe DIA(direct internet leased circuits) if they can afford it.

What is your review for Celcom? Good so far?

Speedtest reveals you're getting slightly more than your subscribed speed.

Yes including Allo City Broadband upon request and proper justification.

Got few forumers already say they converted to public IP based account.

You taking that RM129 300M 6 months rebate offer?

What router they gave you? TP-Link AX-10 WiFi 6 router?

Maybe I misrecall, yeah RM119 with first 3 months rebate.

It's the Malaysian government's fault to allow TM to monopolize the wholesale fibre infra in Malaysia by subsidizing them with their RM10B HSBB buildout.

At the same time, they allowed TM to operate their own consumer RSP UniFi brand to compete with other players on the HSBB.

This open access structure and idea is a total FAILURE to begin with as it allows the wholesale operator to favor its own ISP brand and dictate others with its pricing structure/implementation.

Yes but a little too late now. Even TIME and TNB Allo are beginning to slack. They can't handle the surge in customers and their installation works are dropping in quality as our economy begins to deteriorate.

Our work culture in this country always starts off looking impressive but dies down after a while.