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DiGi 3G Broadband Official Packages
Posted:
March 30, 2009
By: soyacincau
4 comments
After running several pre-launch promos at Mutiara Damansara & SS2, DiGi has officially launched its 3G Broadband service. Most of us are anticipating DiGi to launch 3G service in form of mobile telephony services but it seems that they decided to take on the broadband route.
There are 3 official broadband packages, that differs on speed and monthly data quota.
The lowest package, Discover is priced at RM58/month with average speed 700kbps download and 200kbps upload. Monthly data quota is 3GB and additional usage is charged at RM0.15 per 10MB.
The mid range package, Explorer is priced at RM108/month with same speed as Discover but it has a higher monthly data quota of 10GB/month. Additional usage is charged at RM0.05 per 10MB. The Discover and Explorer’s excess charge is capped at RM138 which is the maximum you would pay for excess data.
For power users, Extreme is priced at RM188/month with average speeds of 2Mbps download and 1Mbps upload. Monthly data quota is 20GB and that is also the maximum data cap allowed.
Key differences of Digi’s Broadband service are the use of Average Speed as opposed to speeds up to used by other competitors such as Maxis, Celcom and U Mobile. From what we understand, this would be a better gauge of actual speeds compared to the maximum theoritical speeds of up to 3.6Mbps or 7.2Mbps often used today. This could probably mean that the Extreme’s 2Mbps is capable up to 7.2Mbps as offered in the trial offer.
While others reserves the right to throttle down the speed once the data quota is used up, DiGi uses a different approach of charging excess usage. Once your original data quota has been exceeded, you will charged for excess usage while enjoying your original speed.
However this is only valid until you reached the max capped limit (RM138 for Discover/Explorer and RM188 for Extreme.) After the cap has reached, speeds will be throttled down to 128kbps for all 3 packages. Basically DiGi gives you some data quota headroom before it throttles down your speed.
All packages above are on non-contract basis unless you opt for the modem bundle which is payable on monthly installment.
There are 2 modems being offered, the Huawei E219 and the Huawei E230 with HSDPA 3.6Mbps and 7.2Mbps respectively. Both modems above are on 12 months contract while it is covered with a 18 months warranty. An advanced payment of RM300 is required up front for those who wish to take up the modem bundling.
Coverage wise, they have started covering beyond Damansara and PJ. For more info, check out the DiGi Broadband site.
4 Comments for DiGi 3G Broadband Official Packages
NanoTech
You know what is the biggest gimmick? On the DiGi broadband front page, it mentions “For as little as RM2 a day, you get consistent speed with our advanced 14.4Mbps HSPA network and generous usage volume.”
Claiming 14.4Mbps is one thing but we don’t see any package that offers actual 14.4Mbps connectivity.
7.2Mbps might be real cos they are offering that during trial. When they got more subscriber, getting 7.2 would be harder.
Overpromising P1 Wiggy? | SoyaCincau
[...] DiGi Broadband however tried a different approach of using “average speed“. Although it is average, this could be an advantage or disadvantage to them. In a market where people are shouting the highest capable speed, DiGi’s average speed offering would be frowned upon against the rest. At the same time DiGi would need to struggle to ensure that average speed is maintained as well. From this comparison, DiGi tried a conservative approach to win customers but the low average speed is drowned by the higher speed claims of its competitions. [...]
ronyjarod
they don’t even reach a speed of 3.6 mbps at the best effort basis
i think we need to get a better and clearer understanding on the fact of reaching up to 7.2Mbps.
In order to even reach that speed, the network first have to support this. Now, its clearly known that none of the TELCO’s around have this service up.
There are only few telco’s around (not in Msia) which support this speed i.e. Optus (Australia) to name a few.
Basically, its saying that WHEN a network has that capability, ONLY then can you achieve that speed of 7.2Mbps.
So its also false advertising or misinformation, if any TELCO’s can actually boast and say that thier network already supports right up to 7.2Mbps.
Right NOW, there are none. 3.6Mbps is the max.
Its a marketing strategy to confuse the public and to push thier EXTREME pack by saying that it can reach up to 7.2Mbps, well actually theorectically they are quite true when they say IT (the modem) supports it, but its not TRUE (the network doesnt support).
People are easily conned or tricked into something like this. Like they say, bigger is better, faster is better, etc. So its all media Psychologically being fed to consumers to believe that they can reach such speed.