DiGi Broadband Comes to Penang and Sabah

DiGi plans to invest RM75 million over the next three years to roll out 3G broadband in Penang and Sabah.

DiGi’s Head of Strategy and New Business, Albern Murty said DiGi’s broadband coverage now stands at 31% of Penang’s population with plans to cover the whole of Penang by August.

DiGi 3G broadband covers Tanjung Tokong, along Gurney Drive, Penang International Airport, Queensbay Mall and parts of Georgetown.

DiGi says it has invested in High-Speed Packet Access technology to deploy a 14.4 Mbps for fast download and upload speeds of up to 2Mbps.

We’re a bit sceptical about the 31% population coverage in Penang though, as the source didn’t specifically say if its 3G or DiGi’s EDGE service combine. Remember, before 3G, DiGi claims EDGE service as broadband as well.

No words on other states in the report.

Read SoyaCincau’s coverage on DiGi Broadband:
DiGi 3G Network Discovered
DiGi to Launch 3G Services by End March 2009
DiGi 3G Broadband: 7.2Mbps Mobile Internet Revealed
DiGi 3G Broadband Official Packages
DiGi 3G Broadband Extends Pre-Promo Coverage in PJ
DiGi 3G Broadband Now with 50GB Quota

More onfo on DiGi Broadband plans and packages HERE.

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New Corp Affairs Head at DiGi

And now for some humdrum corporate news.

From The Edge Daily:

FORMER Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Bhd head of corporate affairs Zaiton Idrus has joined DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd as head of its corporate affairs division.

Zaiton replaces Tunku Alizakri Raja Muhamad Alias. A DiGi statement issued on Feb 2 said Tunku Alizakri left to pursue other interests after four years in DiGi.

Zaiton, who started work early this year will be overseeing corporate communications, corporate relations, corporate responsiblity, legal and regulatory, and will be responsible for strategic planning.

Before returning to Malaysia in late 2007, Zaiton was Standard Chartered regional head for corporate affairs, Africa, the first Asian to hold the post. Based in London, she oversaw the bank’s corporate affairs in 13 countries across Africa.

On paper, it looks like Zaiton is up for the job. We at SoyaCincau.com would like to welcome her to the telco indsutry.

To Pn. Zaiton: do keep us in you mailing list for future updates on DiGi. Thank you.

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Video: DiGi I Love Simple & Easy TV Commercial

New on the airwaves is DiGi’s 2nd & 3rd batch of TV Commercials themed “I Love Simple” & “I Love Easy”. This is a new addition after “I Love Savings” series of ads.

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MNP in Malaysia: Nationwide by October 2008

MNP in Malaysia has been hot on the lips of telcos recently as it is seen as a big shake up in the communication business. After a long wait, MCMC has finally confirmed that MNP or better known as Mobile Number Portability will kick off in the Klang Valley by September before it is implemented Nationwide by October.

What is MNP?
If you haven’t heard of it, MNP allows mobile subscribers to keep their mobile numbers including its prefix with them if they wish to switch to a different operator. Currently, there are 4 main operators in the country and the prefixes (010, 011, 012, 013, 014, 015, 016, 017, 018, 019) are fixed with the registered operators.

If a user is a Maxis subscriber bearing 012-1234567, he/she won’t be able to bring this number with them when switching to a different operator. This has become a big barrier for consumers who wish to switch as mobile numbers tend to be a personal identity which many won’t want to lose. Read the rest of this entry »

Maxis Postpaid: New Value Plus

With MNP just around the corner, the battle heats up in the telco industry. After we’ve seen U Mobile & DiGi’s response, Maxis has finally came into the picture with its New Value Plus.

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Video: DiGi I Love Savings TV Commercial

DiGi has started airing its new TV Commercial for its new postpaid plans.

“We all love different things, but we all love savings…”

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DiGi Prepaid offers 1 year validity

After Maxis launched its Hotlink 365, DiGi has responded with its Reload Once, Stay Connected for ONE Year offer for a limited time period between 23rd July – 31st August 2008.

DiGi’s offer is simple and gives more value to its customers as it only requires a RM100 usable reload. This means every single sen spent for validity is actual credit or talk time that subscribers can use.

On Hotlink 365, its subscribers are required to pay a yearly fee of RM33 which is similar to paying access fee which subscriber can’t utilise.  On top of the RM33 fee, they would need to top up RM30 within the first 6 months of activation.

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U Mobile New Postpaid: U38, U68 & U98

Along with their U Mobile 018 Prepaid, U Mobile has introduced 3 new postpaid plans earlier this month, namely U38, U68 & U98. U38 is not an entirely new product as it was launched several months earlier as U Mobile’s first postpaid commercial offering in April.

Since U Mobile is pushing on their per second billing, U38 was revised from having 15 seconds block to 1 second block and reduced their off net rate slightly from 28 sen/minute to 24 sen/minute (0.4 sen/sec).

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DiGi New Postpaid: DG20, DG50, DG150 & DG250

As mentioned earlier, Digi is shaking up the postpaid market with its new 4 postpaid plans.

The plan names of DG 20, DG 50, DG 150 & DG 250 may look like it represents the monthly commitment usage but it is actually different for the case of DG 20 & DG 250. DG 20 & DG  250 is actually monthly subscription based plans which is similar to monthly access fee.

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DiGi to introduce 4 new plans?

Shortly after the release of U Mobile’s new postpaid plans (U38, U68 & U98), DiGi is about to introduce some exciting new postpaid plans. From what was reported on NTV7 tonight, it seems that there would be 4 plans which one of which we believe is offering FREE domestic calls.

We would like to link the NTV7 report of DiGi’s new postpaid plans here but NTV7 site is in a revamp process for their 10th anniversary.

Check back here again for details.

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DiGi Postpaid: DG20, DG50, DG150 & DG250