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http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?f...89&sec=business
RM700mil capex Celcom to upgrade infrastructure
By B.K. SIDHU

KUALA LUMPUR: Celcom (M) Bhd, a wholly-owned unit of Axiata Group Bhd (formerly TM International), will spend RM700mil in capital expenditure this year of which RM300mil will be for upgrading its wireless broadband infrastructure.

Celcom chief executive officer Datuk Seri Shazalli Ramly said there was a dire need to expand the infrastructure as demand was fast outstripping supply. To him, no one expected the growth to be so robust and it was partly due to the current economic climate and sites such as Friendster and Facebook that were attracting people to connect to the worldwide web.

“More people are staying at home and they turn to the Internet as their gateway to the outside world. The slowdown is seen as the growth catalyst for the wireless broadband sector,” he told StarBiz.

“The change in behaviour is driving the growth and, to us, it is about how fast we can bring in more capacity and connectivity to the user. Having said that we are cautious of (not over-selling) the capacity that we have.’’

Shazalli said demand was coming not just from the Klang Valley but also other states, including Terengganu, Perak, Kelantan and even Sarawak, besides the rural areas.

“The demand is beyond our expectations and the question we need to ask is how big is our pipe to cater to this demand that has a multiplier effect, so that is why we have to invest more,’’ he said.

Celcom is not alone in seeing a huge take-up for its wireless broadband services. Green Packet saw 2,000 new subscribers in the first month when it launched its RM48 per month package and DiGi.Com Bhd had an encouraging response to its newly-launched wireless 3G broadband service.

Celcom also prides itself to be the leader of the pack and Shazalli claimed it was because the company had the most wireless broadband subscribers in the country and provided the widest coverage in the country’s populated areas.

It had 228,000 wireless broadband subscribers as at end-2008, and its base had grown dramatically from a mere 66,000 at end-2007. Celcom launched its wireless broadband offering in 2007.

The total number of wireless subscribers in the country as per data obtained from the Malaysian Communications & Multimedia Commission website was 386,000 as at end-2008. Three months earlier it was 215,000.

Just for March, Celcom had a record of over 30,000 new subscribers, vice-president/head of business innovation division Kevin Henry said.

“We need to invest to cater to the future growth and our upgrading works will be completed by June/July where our core network will have the capacity to cater up to 10 Gigabytes of packet data,’’ Shazalli said.

But no wireless broadband network is without complaints from consumers who are facing inconsistency in speed, capacity and connectivity issues.

“There are pockets of complaints and we have done our investigations as to why consumers are complaining. What we have found is that 2% of our consumers are hogging 80% of our network capacity and that is why the others are having to contend with capacity and speed issues,” Shazalli said.

“These high users are either downloading movies or music all the time and there are others who use the connection for their businesses. Some even have multiple users. Rightly, they should be on the business package.’’

Other celcos were also facing the same problem, he said, adding that Celcom would not stop users from downloading but some other operators would deny this 2% users access, he said.

“We will just send them an SMS if they exceed their capacity limit and if they continue we will just throttle their speed. In so doing we are ensuring there is fair usage policy for everyone,’’ Shazalli said.

by [ur=http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/982522/+1280#]ltoilet bowl (post 1280)[/url]
Who ever cant access https (secure site)/ym or facebook using daily/weekly bb, please change your APN from celcom3g to wap.celcom.net.my

Use the below template. Thread starter will update the list once the user fill in the template while replying this thread.


Nickname: fruitie
Was on: Both D98 and D68 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: DiGi EDGE
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: Feb 2008 - March 2009

Nickname: soundsyst64
Was on: Prepaid and D68 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: DiGi EDGE
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: May - June 08 (prepaid), July - Nov 08 (D68)

Nickname: mar_ware
Was on: D98 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: DiGi EDGE (4th day)
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: Oct 2008 - March 2009

Nickname: dgtel2
Was on: D68 and D98 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: U-Mobile U68
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: Since it was introduced till January 2008.

Nickname: jayelleenelial
Was on: D98 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: Digi Edge RM66/month and waiting for Streamyx to get fixed.
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: Three days! 18 March 2009 - 21 March 2009.

Nickname: atrash
Was on: D98 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: Maxis Mobile Internet (not the wireless broadband) - the one with RM99
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: Sept/Oct 2008 - March 2009

Nickname: jamejam
Was on: D98 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: Digi Edge (Borrowed from Digi friend)
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: Three days! 18 March 2009 - 21 March 2009. Hopefully can get money back, spoke to the celcom customer service officer, he said maybe can get back the money but prorated.

Nickname: He-Sham
Was on: D68 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: Maxis 3g
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: June 2008 - February 2009

Nickname: suriah
Was on: D98 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: only use celcom prepaid, and will seldom online, online in office with streamyx only
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: End of November 2008 - 23 March 2009

Nickname: elune84
Was on: D68 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: Streamyx 1mb
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: 6 months (August 2008 until January 2009)

Nickname: kevyeoh
Was on: D68 Celcom Broadband
Currently on: Streamyx 1mb
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: 3 months (Dec 08 till Mac 09)

Nickname: laststep
Was on: D68
Currently on: DiGi EDGE
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: half year ++

Nickname: zwanvedder
Was on: D98
Currently on: gonna switch to dg
Duration being a Celcom broadband user: One year

Once you install the modem software and driver, all you need to do is set the below particulars in the modem dialer software.

APN : celcom3g
Number : *99#

For those using phone, kindly call Celcom Careline and ask them to send the settings to your phone.

Having frequent disconnection? All you need to do is open Command Prompt and type ping www.yahoo.com -t (for example) to keep your connection activity active.

Side note : Celcom currently apply the 5GB monthly data bandwidth quota. If the user passes 5GB, their connection automatically reduced to slower speed. (in bolded and red-colour statement below)