NOTIS PENAIKAN TARAF: Kami akan menamatkan pelan HOTLINK 2.0 anda pada 19 Dec 2025. Anda akan BERTUKAR SECARA AUTOMATIK ke Hotlink RED yang lebih baik dengan manfaat terkini - PERCUMA. Kredit/tempoh sah tetap sama. Semua butiran: Cari "UP5" di laman web Hotlink. Sila abaikan SMS ini jika telah menukar pelan anda baru-baru ini.

That's normal for Hotlink. They do not practice like Digi where you keep your legacy plan forever.

the worst thing is hotlink put me offline for few hours. i thought my sim is broken .

My family has one Hotlink 2.0 also received the same SMS today

There goes the RM5 for 90 days validity

Wonder how does Hotlink RED validity work? RM1 for 1 day?

hotlink pantas rm10 reload with 30 days validity.
hotlink will charge rm5 for change plan. rm5 change plan come with 30 days validity.

Not cheap to maintain a dummy number for RM10 a month

Guess will just have to let it go expired

Thanks for the info!

port out the number . dont let it recycle back into maxis pool.

I just read about Hotlink Pantas and 365 Active Period pass

Since the number still has enough credit balance, probably will switch to Hotlink Pantas and buy the pass to let it continue for another year

This post has been edited by coolguy_0925: Nov 19 2025, 03:45 AM

IMHO, they don't dropped the legacy plan very often.
btw, they did change the term of newer plan quite actively ,especially while the plan was new and good.

eg: while the hotlink pantas plan was launched (used to be called: hotlink internet 365), we only need to topup RM5 to get 30 days validity .
and then one or two month later, the changed it to "topup RM10 to get 30days validity".

sound like a plan. but,

Please be notice: the Grace period( cannot call out, only can receive call) of pantas plan is only 30 days, is quite short , if comparing to 50days and 90days with old old plan.

Cannot find any public annoucement/futher info from hotlink/maxis website for this "Upgrade from Hotlink Legacy Plans" actions.
only know
1) Hotlink Bagus and #Hotlink shall be upgrade to Hotlink Pantas plan on 27 October 2025 once you agree by replying UP7 to 22622 before 26 October 2025, 11:59pm.
2) some (maybe the rest of the) Legacy plans (can confirm Hotlink2.0 kena in this thread) will be upgraded to Hotlink RED from 2 – 19 December 2025. No action is required from your end.

p/s: Just look at the *100# of Pantas plan , there is an option 3 to renew the validity to 365days , "3 Sim active days". no compulsion to use Hotlink App.

This post has been edited by hashtag2016: Nov 20 2025, 11:41 PM

Just dig out a sms for the upgrade was received a couple days ago. so kiss me good bye the 5 free calls from Friendz (Hotlink Fast Plan)
definitely not a good news

The result after searching UP5 in hotlink website: _https://www.hotlink.com.my/en/faq/products/hotlink-red/upgrade-from-legacy-plans/

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or maybe ,it already long gone without my consence.
found the Friendz for some other plan(Hotlink Video Plan) was dead already in September.

refer: _https://www.hotlink.com.my/en/faq/products/prepaid-video/hotlink-friendz-discontinuation/
This post has been edited by hashtag2016: Nov 21 2025, 08:21 AM

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Extra Plan also got the similar sms a couple days ago, but it got another 2 sms b4 that. The earliest one is about 2 weeks ago, but don't know what happen to the "validy365" after switching to the Red plan ??
Shouldn't Extra Plan fall into same category as Hotlink Bagus and #Hotlink ?
weird...

This post has been edited by hashtag2016: Nov 21 2025, 01:39 PM

hyc also...

aq x mintak pun. hotlink simply je

anyone here experienced the unrequested Hotlink HYC plan change to Hotlink RED?
it seems to affect the validity of the plan, where the 365 validity of of 11months available has been taken away.

where else the screenshot here mention that “WON’T affect your credit balance. Validity same/longer”





here’s the before_on original plan, then the sms_notification and after_sms

This post has been edited by [ r u g a ]: Dec 10 2025, 05:27 PM

facing same issue, contacted them but just throw out the standard Q&A, no even want to entertain further

I think u just got an upgrade glitch.. (I knew it would happen )
maybe u should try to contact their customer service again?or call to 123 ? and get a report number for this case.
and, If the problem still persist, report it to MCMC/SKMM .


p/s: I just take a glace of the Extra Plan(with 365 validity) to Red Plan one, the validity was changed and append 30days ,on the top of original expire date. so, no validity problem in this specific example.
But the problem is, the Red plan don't have 365 validity, will still cause some hassle later. I should had changed the plan myself to Pantas, b4 the force upgrade happen, that would save me alotx of trouble.
(but , I'm not very sure if the validity retain or not ,if I change to Pantas myself, so quite a dilemma situation.)

This post has been edited by hashtag2016: Dec 12 2025, 11:14 PM

Update for sharing

Got changed to Hotlink RED from Hotlink 2.0

Same, validity got shorten and it is now expired 1 month from now instead of the keeping the expiry date from Hotlink 2.0, total about +/- 20 days shorter

Well, will switch to Pantas when nearing expiry and buy 365 days active period pass later on to keep it going

By the way, are the following doable during grace period or must be done during active period?
1. plan switching
2. purchasing 365 days active period pass

yes, both only work in active period.