REDtone Broadband WiMAX Promo

REDTone Broadband, a WiMAX operator that focus on Sabah/Sarawak has a new promotion for its WiMAX packages.

Until 31st August 2009, REDtone offers FREE WiMAX CPE Rental of RM25/month for new subscribers. In addition, the RM100 Activation fee is waived as well. REDTone Broadband is still giving a 14 days Money back guarantee.

The monthly WiMAX subscription fees are still maintained with the lowest entry of 1Mbps going for RM138/month.

More details here.

P1 offers wiggy 69 with 800kbps download

Some P1 sales dealer P1 has officially started selling the new value version of Wiggy called the Wiggy 69. This offers a lower speed up to 800kbps compared to original wiggy that offers up to 10mbps. Monthly subscription starts from RM69 per month. Monthly data quota is 5GB per month.

The modem is free with 2 years subscription and it is chargable at RM299 for those who take up 1 year subscription.

The Wiggy 69 has a registration fee of RM100, chargable up front and activation fee of RM60 which will be charged on the first bill.

More info here or you can order direct from P1 here.

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P1 accepts online orders for WiMAX packages

For those who wish to subscribe to P1 WiMAX without leaving home can do so now as P1 has started its online ordering feature.

Ordering is quite simple. It guides you thru coverage finding, package selection and then payment options. Upon delivery, it stated that the customer will need to prepare a photocopy of their IC. Current it accepts Credit Card and Cheque payments only.

To order, visit here.

P1 WiMAX available at Pahang, Perak & Terengganu, now eyes East Malaysia

P1 W1MAX, one of the key 4 WiMAX operator has started operations in Pahang, Perak & Terengganu recently which brings its coverage up to a total of  8 states (Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Johor, Kedah, Penang, Pahang, Perak & Terengganu). This is quite an achievement for a company that is barely a year in operations. It is also expected that P1 will achieve to cover 35% of the population by end of this year.

While P1 has been busy in West Malaysia, it also has shown interested in venturing to East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.  However this optimistic move would require consent from MCMC as Redtone is the sole WiMAX operator in Sabah/Sarawak at the moment. We foresee if Redtone isn’t able to meet coverage expectations, MCMC would be forced to open up East Malaysia to other WiMAX operators to get the job done.

Hopefully with P1 knocking on MCMC’s door to enter Sabah/Sarawak, Redtone would be pressured to speed up desired coverage.

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P1 WiMAX VOiCE

As predicted, P1 has started its Voice service called WiMAX VOiCE. However this is by special invitation which is sort of a friendly user trial programme.

As an introductory offer, the invited users are given the P30 plan which comes with RM30 worth of talk time at only RM20/month.

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P1 vs AMAX Klang Valley Coverage Comparison

It has been nearly a year since the WiMAX players had launched their commercial service and coverage has always been the main concern of consumers today. MCMC even aims WiMAX operators to target 25% of Malaysia population by end of this year. That’s 6.75 million people to cover.

So how are our WiMAX operators doing? P1 and AMAX so far are the only operators who published their coverage areas online. Compare the Klang Valley coverage below:

P1 W1MAX Coverage [ SOURCE ]

AMAX WiMAX Coverage [ SOURCE ]

These screenshots are obtained today 4th June 2009. As shown above, P1 has been expanding aggressively in the Klang Valley. Meanwhile AMAX too is also expanding by patches and we can see that there are several new spots  in Cheras updated recently.

P1 is currently the most visible WiMAX player and the coverage availability is quite extensive as shown above. If they keep this up, the 25% target could be achieved by year end.

No coverage details are available for YTL and RedTone at the moment although RedTone has started showing some WiMAX packages recently.

P1 W1MAX offers 1 month free subscription for autopay

Paying bills could be a hassle and credit card autopay does make things convenient. P1 now offers a special offer for those who take up autopay service with Visa and MasterCard holders.

If you activate autopay, P1 will offer 1 month FREE wimax subscription on the 13th month of the autopay service.

More details here.

P1W1MAX DV 230 WiMAX Modem with WiFi and VOIP

Update: P1 DV230 now officially available with existing plan. There’s no price difference and comes free with 2 years contract. Details here.

After the launch of the P1 Wiggy for mobile users, P1 is about to unveil a new desktop modem which is an improvement over its current DS 300. The DS 300 was P1’s first ever WiMAX device which has a very simple plug and play approach.

For those who wish to share the WiMAX connection had to buy their own WiFi router as the DS 300 has only a single LAN port. This week, P1 would be addressing this problem by introducing the DV 230 which comes with WiFi and more! 

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REDtone WiMAX Broadband Plans

REDtone is one of the 4 WiMAX licensed operators in Malaysia. While P1, AMAX & YTL focuses in West Malaysia, REDtone is focused in East Malaysia.

August last year, they have officially launched in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah but they have yet to made any commercial availability to the market.

As reported earlier, they began to focus in Kuching, Sarawak. Now they have started to push their WiMAX aggressively with 5 WiMAX Plans from as low as RM138/month.

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Overpromising P1 Wiggy?

P1 Wiggy was launched with the tagline of being the fastest USB Broadband up to 10Mbps in the market. However some users are complaining that the 10 Mbps speed is hardly achievable and average speed hardly even reach half of the claimed speed. There’s a discussion at Lowyat.net where a user is complaining of the Wiggy being over promised and under delivered to its customers. P1 Wiggy was advertised of having downlink up to 10Mbps but average speed was only around 1.0-3.0Mbps. That is only 30% of the maximum speed claim.

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