Just heard that amax - the WiMAX service of AsiaSpace, is scheduled for official launch at One Utama Shopping Centre on 30th of August...

Anybody can confirm?

Hmm, I heard it from a friend only...

Anyway this site says RedTone Wimax is launching in KK today...:-

http://soyacincau.com/2008/08/13/official-...-out-next-week/

Asiaspace Plans To Open Concept-based Retail Outlets In Klang Valley

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- Asiaspace Sdn Bhd plans to open a concept-based retail outlets offering its products and services in major locations in the Klang Valley as well as in selected towns in Peninsular Malaysia next year.

The first outlet is expected to be located in Taman Tun Dr Ismail in Kuala Lumpur and is tentatively scheduled to be launched in October, the company said in a statement Monday.

"We will invest heavily into building the necessary infrastructure to support the delivery of our services," said Asiaspace's director Tengku Kamel Mahmud.

He said the launch of Asiaspace's new WiMAX service, which will be marketed under the brand name "amax", will enable the company to extend its reach while improving efficiency as it provides a central location to the best business applications, services and solutions.

For a start, Asiaspace will set up enough WiMAX base stations to cover 25 percent of the populated areas of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Tengku Kamel said.

By 2010, the company expects to cover between 40 and 45 percent of the population, he said.

"We will tie up with our technology partner Huawei Technologies to help add value to the overall marketability of the outlet," he added.

Amax, which will be available on Aug 30, uses a 2.3 gigahertz WiMAX network.

Asiaspace said its new WiMAX service will initially be available in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, followed by Sungai Way, Subang Jaya, Bandar Kinrara, Taman Maluri, Bukit Anggerik, Sri Petaling and Technology Park Malaysia.

imo

another stu1 move from ISP, they never learn lesson from previous ISP. roll-out at TTDI area

why TTDI is always the 1st, pls learn from P1 W1MAX

xpresside : We are talking about Amax from Asiaspace covering TTDI area, not P1 Wimax.

p4n6 : It's in One Utama New Wing... in front of Guess shop...  beside the Amax roadshow there are stalls selling mooncakes...

xpresside : We are talking about Amax from Asiaspace covering TTDI area, not P1 Wimax.

p4n6 : It's in One Utama New Wing... in front of Guess shop...  beside the Amax roadshow there are stalls selling mooncakes...

The Asiaspace Wimax Sdn Bhd (Amax) website has the info on coverage, packages and pricing: www.amax.my 
Note - no 'com'.

The Amax T&C don't have the Fair Use Policy. P1's have the policy which limits total download per month to only 20GB (where got enough!  ) , while Celcom, Maxis and U limit to -worse- 3-5GB per month, all for roughly the same price of about RM99.00 per month.

I put the question on the absence of the Fair Use Policy to Mohd Zamri Salleh, the Chief Technology Office of Amax. He told me they had gone thru that and deliberately decided that they shouldn't limit the amount of download for Wimax users.     

On the downside, for the cheaper (RM99.00) package, only the USB dongle modem is provided, which means one can't use it to wi-fi the house, but the advantage is it is entirely portable. If wanna the modem with the RJ45 to plug into a wireless router, one gotta take the RM138.00 package - that's 40% more pricey with slightly higher speed, and needs a mains powerpoint. The modems are provided free with a 12-month contract.

P1  provides only one type of modem which needs to be plugged into a mains powerpoint.

On sign-up, Amax is cheaper by RM100 as it doesn't charge the activation fee, which P1 does. Actually, why should ISPs charge those nonsense registration, activation or connection fees?    Monthly subscription enough la! 

You're working for Asiaspace ka?

You're working for Asiaspace ka?

The Asiaspace Wimax Sdn Bhd (Amax) website has the info on coverage, packages and pricing: www.amax.my 
Note - no 'com'.

The Amax T&C don't have the Fair Use Policy. P1's have the policy which limits total download per month to only 20GB (where got enough!  ) , while Celcom, Maxis and U limit to -worse- 3-5GB per month, all for roughly the same price of about RM99.00 per month.

I put the question on the absence of the Fair Use Policy to Mohd Zamri Salleh, the Chief Technology Office of Amax. He told me they had gone thru that and deliberately decided that they shouldn't limit the amount of download for Wimax users.     

On the downside, for the cheaper (RM99.00) package, only the USB dongle modem is provided, which means one can't use it to wi-fi the house, but the advantage is it is entirely portable. If wanna the modem with the RJ45 to plug into a wireless router, one gotta take the RM138.00 package - that's 40% more pricey with slightly higher speed, and needs a mains powerpoint. The modems are provided free with a 12-month contract.

P1  provides only one type of modem which needs to be plugged into a mains powerpoint.

On sign-up, Amax is cheaper by RM100 as it doesn't charge the activation fee, which P1 does. Actually, why should ISPs charge those nonsense registration, activation or connection fees?    Monthly subscription enough la!  

No. Am a prospective customer considering signing up and have done my homework on comparing the ISPs, and went to the Amax 1U roadshow to ask questions. But am held off by the Amax USB dongle thing coz wi-fi-ing my house is important, so that I can terminate Streamyx and the house phone TM line. Will wait till its economical package provides the solution to wi-fi.

z3171600 & Ketamine,
Why're you making this kind of assumptions? It's irrelevant to the topic at hand, and it shows your deduction skills are wanting.

Good Info 

Depending on the user, majority users don't really go beyond 20GB per month imho, to me to have the fair usage policy or not actually doesn't really matter. If the ISP decides to throttle the P2P and HTTP like TM, even you have 5 Mbps connection basically will be useless too.

Anyhow, the way I see it, the USB dongle is for outdoor usage as the output power and antenna gain will be smaller than the indoor CPE. What if I want to use indoor and outdoor? Then I would need to pay for both?

It's good actually we have one more WiMAX ISP emerging, I foresee when YTLE comes up later, we will have three ways battles and then the price will be cheaper for all of us. So my advice is, be patient and wait if you want to sign up for a better deal. Actually, the way I see it, those fees and CPE cost will be eventually beared by the ISP when competition becomes HOT! ... so ...  let's wait and see ...

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Added on September 1, 2008, 11:03 pm
You still can wire the Indoor CPE to your wifi router to provide wifi coverage in your house. If you look at the package, it's still cheaper than your streamyx and fixed line combined together. Both Amax and P1 actually purposely adjust the price to counter Streamyx on this.

pretty lame speed..1mbps and 1.5mbps lol

The rated 1Mbps speed will better than the "best effort" speed offered by TMNut.

Better has a very wide meaning 

However you define better, it would still be better than TMNut. 

On the latency, I doubt so, others I think should be ok 

i have no problem with my 1.5mbps streamyx, always 160kBps download
so i guess what im getting from streamyx is over the top?

Sorry I don't get what do you mean by over the top. 

As you've mentioned that streamyx's best effort has given you 160kbps DL speed. Shouldn't it be 1.5Mbps as you've subscribe for 1.5Mbps?

here we go again. 160kBps = 1.25 Mbps

The rated 1Mbps speed will better than the "best effort" speed offered by TMNut.

I put the question on the absence of the Fair Use Policy to Mohd Zamri Salleh, the Chief Technology Office of Amax. He told me they had gone thru that and deliberately decided that they shouldn't limit the amount of download for Wimax users.

Ahhh.......... my bad......... i didn't see the B.

I haven't experienced any where near those figures with my streamyx. Anyway, that's another discussion

I don't see 1.5Mbps package available also.
Note that I just downgrade my connection to 512kbps recently and my modem router still showing 1.5Mbps connection. When I do speedtest, it's 500kbps. So I guess they open the pipe to 1.5Mbps and throttle it at their backend.

Up to 1mbps is rm99 package while Up to 1.5mbps is rm13x package

I don't see 1.5Mbps package available also.
Note that I just downgrade my connection to 512kbps recently and my modem router still showing 1.5Mbps connection. When I do speedtest, it's 500kbps. So I guess they open the pipe to 1.5Mbps and throttle it at their backend.

Wait until there have lot of customers ... choke on the base stations & intl links ... that should b d same wz p1 oso

damn it, why doesn't any of these new ISP start their service at Kepong area? I am waiting to jump broadband provider. Really had enough of streamyx problems.

i dun work for amax but i hv done scanning around BU areas to benchmark their coverage with p1. seems like amax do indeed have a larger coverage. but tat is probably due to the vendor pumping the stations at max power...

base stations should not have much problem..I was told upgrading capacity is as simple as adding a module...it's the international bandwidth we need to worry about.

I say open up the local market to SingNet! Hahaha

so expensive...
no use for wimax got this price

now P1 got competitor,but coverage is different..good strategy..

I wonder why AMAX marketing still poor as compared to P1.

Hmmm, I think what I can say is P1 only creates a good awareness to the public through advertisement, as to knowledge the whole Malaysian the existence of Wimax. However, most people didn’t actually take the real initiative to sign-up for P1. Some people sign-up and after that return back the product due to many reasons. Anyway, I am thinking maybe P1 has spent too much money on advertisement, activities. Blah blah… But, not so sure whether they expected return is great or not?
On second thought, maybe P1 Company has hired a better marketer to market their product. Especially in term of activities, blah blah blah and so on….. Secondly, P1 CEO was previously worked in TM Company before. So that fellow got better experience loh and very familiar with broadband service & product.

Well, your topic is quite subjective and arguementative. Different people will have different point of view!

rm99*/month - USB modem, up to 1Mbps

-->chooncc, So expensive? You don't have a proper knowledge of Wimax yet!

The fact is i gotta let you know that Streamyx RM88 or Combo RM110 cannot even get 1Mbps connection speed actually. You know how fast is the speed for 1Mbps streamyx? Ans: Probably 60, 70 to 80 kb/s only. This one can download more than 110 kb/s. If you don't believe, you can try them on Pc fair, but i am not sure whether Amax having a booth there or not this coming event on december 2008?
This Multi-User modem 1.5Mbps vs Streamyx 2Mbps, about the same price, but i think Wimax still win! Some people have experienced that even though they have 2Mbps. Their download speed is only 110 kb/s maximum or even lesser than 100kb/s. However, this 1,5Mbps can go up to 210kb/s <<< i got this speed during Broadband fair, testing using Rapidshare & Megaupload. Youtube super fast download, no need loading! What about streamyx?

hahaha, no prove yet at the moment If i can get a  print screen of Camera Shoot. I will post it here!

Well, Do you felt cheated by TM-NET?
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=ST&f=149&t=830135&st=

Survey on Streamyx Users Satisfaction, How much you love or hate Streamyx?
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/816798

Streamyx very clever to con people. All their package is only their marketing strategy, and don't really provide good service at all

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Added on November 25, 2008, 8:55 pm

It is definately good to create a strong competition among the internet service provider! So that consumer like us will benefit. Let's put TM net down, hahahaha!

I am using 1mbps Streamyx's package and the speed I usually get through DDL is 113kbps(averagely).

It's just some of you do not get the full speed of 1mbps doesn't mean all of us do not get it.

I also understand how much you guys hate Streamyx. To be honest, I don't like it very much too now.

My line often experience frequent disconnection whenever there's rain before or after so I cannot really play my games/surf the net.

However, I do not think Amax is better compared to P1. We just need some "lab rats" of Lowyat.net to try em' out and post the results here.

Ok leelc99, the fact is many of us not getting 1Mbps anymore or actually I can say no getting 1Mbps at all, using speedtest is not so accurate. You can browse through the Lowyat forum and you can see many complaints and the true colours streamyx. DDL of 113kbps is consider slow! Or do you mean 113kb/s???

The RM99 Amax USB modem can go up to 1.1mbps ( 1100kbps ) or 1.2mbps ( 1200kbps ), download speed I tried before can reach up to 120kb/s ++. And don't forget! Wimax is more portable! You can bring out here and there! In the future, trust me, all Malaysian will using Wimax technology for wireless connection! Even Mobile Phone company planning to replace Wimax technology over 3G technology. Nokia, Samsung, Motorola have launched a WiMax Mobile Phone in oversea countries, but not in Malaysia yet only! In other words, Wimax is way far better than 3G and the stupid telephone line (do you know the big limitation of telephone line???)
Some people have an advantage in 1mbps because they bribe TM to increase the speed for them. Especially I remembered I read one thread in Lowyat forum. Someone said he bribe TM to get good speed. Ya, so what he get good speed? Maybe the people around his area will suffer only a little! Secondly, could be possible because you are using Streamyx Business package 1Mbps which costed RM148 is it? But many real life people also complaint that Streamyx SOHO 1Mbps is slow for them.

Actually for those business people who signed up for Streamyx Business package 1Mbps ( SOHO ), I would actually suggest them to take the Amax Rm138  Multi-User modem 1.5Mbps or the P1 RM99 1.2mbps / RM229 2.4mbps. Firstly, it is because the price is more reasonable. Secondly, better than streamyx lah the connection, streamyx so suck!!! However, maybe some people may argue and said depends on what type of business <<< Ok, in this point view, still can be debate!

Hahaha, you know how expensive for Streamyx business package!
1.0 Mbps = RM148
2.0 Mbps = RM 318 <<<< Too much lah!!!

I don't mind whether you prefer P1 more than Amax. To me, they might be the same only lah! But, I will be White mouse ( in chinese term ), go to Pc fair and really test out both P1 and Amax for real Comparison. As I also want to see which company provides better service & better connection! I will also try to snap some photo and post in the Lowyat forum to acknowledge everyone about wimax!

Quote : Diao. Read and see it with your own eyes.

Wahhh you swear at me!!! Don't need to be so mean ok!!! Well, i confess that it is my mistake for mentioning about the 113kbps &  113kb/s. Some people can't differentiate it well. Anyway, i am sorry

Quote : Yaya, 113 and 120+ very big difference. Damn. *(Sarcasm. If you realize.)

I didn't say it is a big difference. What i tried to mention is the advantage of Wimax is portable as compared to Streamyx or any internet service provide which using telephone line!

Quote: The amax network will cover the entire Klang Valley by end 2008

To me P1 also same lah! They promised to cover the entire Damansara and some other places by end of this year. Recently, they have removed those places from their website. Correct me if i am wrong?

But what you can say is Amax words ( The amax network will cover the entire Klang Valley by end 2008 ) is too much lah. It is definitely Impossible to cover the entire klang valley by 2008. However, currently they have no interest on klang valley. My friend who is working in Amax Company told me that they are actually focusing on Areas along the whole LDP highway rather than klang valley. Basically, what I am trying to say is they try not to interfere with P1 Areas loh…

quote: That's the time Streamyx will go down the drain
I would say like this: Streamyx will go down to HELL!!! For letting the Majority of Malaysian suffering from slow speed or problems....

Quote : Diao. Read and see it with your own eyes.

Wahhh you swear at me!!! Don't need to be so mean ok!!! Well, i confess that it is my mistake for mentioning about the 113kbps &  113kb/s. Some people can't differentiate it well. Anyway, i am sorry

Quote : Yaya, 113 and 120+ very big difference. Damn. *(Sarcasm. If you realize.)

I didn't say it is a big difference. What i tried to mention is the advantage of Wimax is portable as compared to Streamyx or any internet service provide which using telephone line!

Quote: The amax network will cover the entire Klang Valley by end 2008

To me P1 also same lah! They promised to cover the entire Damansara and some other places by end of this year. Recently, they have removed those places from their website. Correct me if i am wrong?

But what you can say is Amax words ( The amax network will cover the entire Klang Valley by end 2008 ) is too much lah. It is definitely Impossible to cover the entire klang valley by 2008. However, currently they have no interest on klang valley. My friend who is working in Amax Company told me that they are actually focusing on Areas along the whole LDP highway rather than klang valley. Basically, what I am trying to say is they try not to interfere with P1 Areas loh…

quote: That's the time Streamyx will go down the drain
I would say like this: That's the time Streamyx will go down to HELL!!! For letting the Majority of Malaysian suffering from slow speed or problems....

2. P1 didn't mention they have WiMAX coverage in Damansara. The WiMAX coverage is available on their website after the official launching and new location has been added in ever since. I know cause I check everyday to hope Cheras will be in there one day. I've seen from their website on their Wifi service in Damansara area only

I also always check P1 website and also hoping for Wimax coverage will be in Damansara. I don't mind whether it is P1 or Amax. One time I remembered that I saw in P1 website having a small ad stating that P1 is coming to damansara soon..... And other places also by the end of 2008. Especially they mentioned Damansara, I was excited. But after they removed the Damansara “ with the Coming Soon status”, I feel kind of disappointed! Well, I guess need to wait again until somewhere in year 2009!

Anyone remember under their coverage category, they have mentioned Damansara, and other places coming soon..... ??? Correct me if i am wrong again?
Quote : If it's impossible for them to cover entire KV, then they should not talk cock on their website.
Maybe their IT department people is not effectively on updating their website at all. Well, to me Amax website too suck and plain. No creativity at all!!! Really hardly got any news update or latest information’s.

Oops, I forgot that some areas in KV are also along LDP highway!!!
I think P1 is focusing their Wimax coverage around Federal highway loh <<< Not so sure, but I just guess only! Well, next time tire of Traffic Jam, can use your laptop inside your car surfing internet    , Less frustrating!!!

Anyways, do you know how much will it cost for each package monthly if we don't want to commit to 1 year contract? Also, the jump from 1.5mbps to 2mbps is not worth it. Cost more than 200 more.

ehh...don't know my housing area has been covered by wimax. maybe they didn't marketed or advertised enough. screamyx used to hang up buntings along the streets when it came to my area.

em.... i did an online signup for AMAX yesterday till now there is no response from them at all.

Amax, where are you~~~~ Fast Fast Come Puchong

Amax, where are you~~~~ Fast Fast Come Puchong

Be it P1 or Wimax ... they should have more stability than the streamyx ..

I read an advertisement in the newspaper today (singapore)

Starhub is offering ...MaxOnline Ultimate plus plan ..
sort of like an promotion price..but hell..it's faking cheap ~!!

Sgd 93.09/month (usual : SGd 124.14)
- 100Mbps home broadband
-7.2 Mbps mobile broadband
28 months contract...

and u sign up now .. u got your self an free laptop ~!!!

compare the price with my RM88 package from the streamyx ...
all I can say is ...I even hate streamyx more now .. those f'king Basted..

cheers

nug

puchong got already...if u wan to register can pm me...