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 Why Does Our Telco Want to Sell Quota Based Plans, Yet Only Wants Us to Use In Phones?

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choonster P
post Oct 17 2022, 10:28 PM

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QUOTE(petpenyubobo @ Oct 17 2022, 09:14 PM)
The telcos especially both YES and Maxis in particular  are secretly favoring their own devices and promoted phones.

Either your device will totally cannot connect to their network giving "No connection" or you can still connect but your lesser known device "buy your own BYO device" will be severely throttled when you surf the net. When you contact them all they'll give you an answer is  your device is not in our supported list of phones. Sorry for that you no happy go port out to other companies.

Very dirty trick.It's not even an unlimited plan. It's a quota based one.
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I'm subscribed to hotlink RM35 unlimited 3mbps + RM5 hotspot in my tplink modem. The internet speed was terrible, only few hundred kbps. I was made to understand by the customer care that their simcard is meant for use in a phone & not a modem. So long as it worked in a phone, it is deemed there's no issue with the internet speed. I resulted to a partial refund after a long chat with them. To me, it kinda defeat the purpose of offering unlimited data with such restrictions.
choonster P
post Oct 17 2022, 10:58 PM

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QUOTE(petpenyubobo @ Oct 17 2022, 10:32 PM)
Same for me I subscribed the RM50 Unlimited 6Mbps with unlimited hotspot feature as well. Put into a modem the connection acts weird speed like not moving, always packet dropping and you'll noticed ports are locked up cannot upload on certain apps such as Whatsapp when using the modem as hotspot.

Then i place the SIM into a Samsung 4G phone, turn on hotpot and try. All problems gone.

Why they bother whether its in a modem or phone since you already has a FUP of 50GB a month?
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I found Celcom mix & match RM35 - 30gb high speed internet which seem to be a good deal. Unfortunately, I was made known it couldn't be used in a modem for hotspot purpose, so it's not just those "unlimited plan" that has restriction in hotspot ... Now I am confused how to get a suitable simcard for 4g router for hotspot purpose ..

 

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