Australian telco Singtel-Optus is facing trouble over a series of advertisement which the government finds deceiving under the Trade Practices Act. The ad as shown above advertises 150GB of broadband for $59.99 which is split for 75GB for off peak and another 75GB for on peak usage. Sure enough there will be throttling involved like any other telco however the tricky part is that your entire broadband is throttled once your 75GB of on peak usage is used up.

As a normal consumer, you probably expect off-peak and on-peak quotas to be treated separately. However with this unique throttling policy, your entire 75GB off peak quota is simply burned out once on-peak is depleted. To make matters worse, the throttle speed is a pathetic 64kbps download, making it unusable for rich media websites. The main issue here is that consumers will not get to fully enjoy 150GB as claimed and the telco could be facing a fine up to A$1.1 million.

This is something for our local telcos to take note when it comes to advertising. By the way, did you notice Optus uses ‘yes’ on their brand? We wonder if YTL got their yes branding inspiration from them.

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	Industry in General, Players on the Field
	Advertising, Australia, Broadband, Broadband Ads, Misleading, Optus, singtel, SingTel-Optus

Singapore may be getting the Samsung Galaxy Tab a few weeks later than Malaysia but it sure is cheaper to get it there outright.

SingTel — the carrier offering the Galaxy Tab — have already put up a register of interest site to take in orders for the device that will be hitting stores on November 13.

Outright selling price for the Galaxy Tab is S$998 which roughly equates to RM2,388. As a comparison, Maxis sells the Tab for RM2,699 or about S$1,128. Ringgit for Ringgit that’s a savings of RM311.00 — a substantial amount if you happen to be in Singapore on launch day.

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	Mobile Devices, Samsung
	Android, Android tablets, Galaxy Tab Malaysia, Maxis Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung Galaxy Tab Malaysia, Samsung Galaxy Tab Maxis, samsung galaxy tab price, Samsung Galaxy Tab price Malaysia, Samsung Galaxy Tab price Singapore, Samsung Galaxy Tab Singapore, Samsung Galaxy Tab SingTel, singtel, SingTel Samsung Galaxy Tab

In the midst of all the WiMAX excitement, this is just a friendly reminder to all the iPhone 3G fans out there.

Mark 22 August on your calendar.

In less than two days the second wave of iPhone 3G launches will hit 20 new countries. One of them is our neighbor across the causeway, Singapore and none of them is us – Malaysia.

In the build up to the Singapore release, exclusive (for a limited time till StarHub and M1 comes in) device partner SingTel has released its price plan to complement the sought after device.

Check out our sister blog iPhone3GforMalaysia on some of the details.

Maxis, Celcom, DiGi, U Mobile – so how? Malaysia Boleh right?

	Mobile Devices
	iPhone 3G, iphone 3g singapore, singtel