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U Mobile revises Prepaid Plan with Free SMS
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January 21, 2012
By: soyacincau
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Effective 20th January 2012, U Mobile has revised its prepaid offering for new subscribers. Not only you get free calls but this time they are also giving out free SMS. They are giving out 20 FREE SMS for every 6 SMS sent on a daily basis which can be used on all local mobile numbers. You can only accumulate a maximum of 1000 SMS but they reset on a daily basis.
In terms of Free Calls which U Mobile is offering, the new plan has revised the free calls period to 12:00 AM to 6:59:59PM which is subject to Fair Use policy of 60 minutes a day. You get 1 day of Free calls for every top up made. So if you top up RM30, you get 30 days of free calls within U Mobile Network. Existing U Mobile subscribers that signed up before this can still continue 24 hours all day Free calls.
For more information, head over to U Mobile Prepaid page.
U Mobile reduces Prepaid BlackBerry Rates
Posted:
October 6, 2011
By: soyacincau
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U Mobile have been slashing its prepaid BlackBerry rates quite regularly. Not too long ago, they have reduced their daily BlackBerry daily subscription to RM0.88/day. Now they have also reduced their weekly and monthly subscription to RM5.50/week and RM19/month.
This is among the cheapest and the plans include additional data usage such as video streaming. As comparison, Tune Talk charges RM0.98/daily or RM28/monthly but their additional data usage is charged at 5sen/MB.
For more information, head to U Mobile’s BlackBerry Prepaid page.
U Mobile revises BlackBerry weekly and monthly subscription
Posted:
August 7, 2011
By: soyacincau
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U Mobile has reduced its BlackBerry rates further for both prepaid and postpaid subscription. In the last revision few weeks back, U Mobile was offering:
Daily – RM1.50/day
Weekly – RM9/week
Monthly – RM40/month
Now they have made significant reductions and below is their latest BlackBerry Rates:
Daily – RM1.50/day
Weekly – RM8/week (Prepaid) / RM9/week (Postpaid)
Monthly – RM25/month
All three plans come with “Free Unlimited Data” with Fair Usage caps at 30MB/day, 300MB/week and 1GB/month.
With heavy competition from the likes of TuneTalk’s RM28/month BlackBerry BIS Prepaid plans, most telcos are forced to relook into their existing offering to stay competitive. A few weeks back, DiGi had introduced a monthly unlimited BlackBerry prepaid plan at RM25/month which comes with 500MB/day Fair Use Quota.
In the header, it is highlighted that the BlackBerry plans come with free calls but it wasn’t made clear in the BlackBerry section. From the looks of it, it should be based on top up for Prepaid customers.
For more information, head to U Mobile’s BlackBerry Plan page.
U Mobile Prepaid gives daily free calls and cheaper Singapore roaming charges
Posted:
July 20, 2011
By: soyacincau
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Update: It looks like U Mobile has removed all the related information on its Singapore rates posted here. We have no idea why it has been removed.. U Mobile’s lowered Singapore Roaming rates promo is live again on their website.
U Mobile has revised its prepaid call plans which gives you free calls within U Mobile network. The free calls are based on the top up amount made as U Mobile gives you 1 day unlimited free calls for every RM1 top up. This means a RM30 top up will give you 30 days of free calls made from U Mobile to U Mobile.
Update: Reader @RozAriffin has highlighted in the comments that the Free calls is actually limited to 60 minutes a day. This is written in their T&C.
Once you’ve topped up, U Mobile will send a confirmation SMS on the free calls status or alternatively you can check by dialling *118#. The free calls period is calculated on a daily basis from 00:00AM to 11:59PM. The maximum accumulative days of free calls is 150 days as mentioned in their FAQ.
U Mobile revises BlackBerry Plans
Posted:
July 14, 2011
By: soyacincau
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U Mobile has revised its BlackBerry Plans which now offers Free Unlimited Data. When U Mobile’s BlackBerry plans and packages were revealed, it offered unlimited BIS service on daily, weekly and monthly basis with additional 5sen/MB charge for other data usage such as video streaming. The price for weekly has been reduced from RM10 to RM9 as well.
A week ago, U Mobile had introduced its Unlimited BIS + 5GB data plan at RM68. This begs a question whether long term monthly subscriber would go for its typical RM40 monthly plan or RM68 unlimited + 5GB since both comes with data with no exchange charge.
For the normal daily, weekly and monthly plans, the permitted “unlimited” usage quota is anyone’s guess as it wasn’t mentioned. It is likely that either the standard download speeds are lower than the RM68 plan or it comes with minimal quota before it gets throttled.
According to the FAQ, the Free “Unlimited” Data is capped at 30MB for daily, 300MB for weekly and 1GB for monthly. There will be no extra charge if you exceed but speeds will be reduced down to comply with FUP. So if your non-BlackBerry service data usage is below 1GB, the monthly RM40 option would be sufficient. For heavier usage, you can get 5GB data for just additional RM28 (RM68/month).
For more information, head to U Mobile’s BlackBerry page.
U Mobile introduces lite Unlimited Mobile Internet
Posted:
April 9, 2011
By: soyacincau
9 comments
U Mobile now offers unlimited mobile internet plan for its prepaid users which costs only RM28 per month. Compared to other prepaids, this new U Mobile offering is rather different as it offers uncapped speeds and there’s no additional charge if you exceed its monthly quota of 500MB.
At RM28/month, this makes it less than RM1 per day to stay connected online. You’ll get 500MB data and it comes with free 100 minutes of nationwide talktime and 30 free SMS. The free minutes and talk time are transferable if your subscription is renewed for the following month. We can’t help but to notice that this looks very similar to Yes Valuepack style of monthly offering as they would bring forward unused calls and SMS to the next month. However it isn’t the same for data on U Mobile, as unfinished quota will be forfeited at the end of each monthly cycle. For calls and SMS, they can only allow maximum accumulation of 200 minutes and 60 SMS at one time.
In terms of coverage, it works in both U Mobile’s 3G and Domestic Roaming coverage areas. As expected, you’ll be getting only EDGE while on Domestic Roaming.
While this U Mobile unlimited mobile internet plan offers uncapped speeds up to 14.4Mbps, its throttled speed after 500MB is capped to a miserable 64kbps. If you’re a light user, this is not bad and the free calls which can be brought forward are good add on value. For heavy users that uses more than a GB monthly, you are better off with the UB40 plan that offers 2GB at only RM40/month.
To activate, dial *118# on your U Mobile prepaid to get started. This Unlimited Mobile Internet plan is auto-renewed so you just need to make sure you have sufficient credit before your 30 days are up. According to its FAQ, you must have credit validity of 30 days at time of activation in order for it to be renewed.
For more information, head to U Mobile’s page here.
U Mobile Pay As You Use broadband rates now at 5 sen per MB
Posted:
January 21, 2011
By: soyacincau
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In conjunction with their U Mobile BlackBerry service launch, U Mobile has reduced their PAYU data rates from 1 sen per KB to 5 sen per MB! That’s a huge difference and it follows the same low PAYU pricing as TuneTalk.
This takes effect immediately today 21st January 2011 on all excess usage on U Mobile broadband plans. Based on the new PAYU usage of 5 sen per MB, that’s equivalent to RM50 per GB upon exceeding your bundled data quota. For power users, it is still recommended that you go for UB68 which comes with no excess charge if you exceed 5GB of usage.
You can check out more details of U Mobile Broadband Plans here.
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U Mobile reveals BlackBerry Plans & Packages
Posted:
January 21, 2011
By: soyacincau
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UPDATE: U Mobile offering FREE 6 months subscription for early birds & U Mobile’s BIS service also available when roaming into Celcom 2G areas.
U Mobile now officially offers BlackBerry services and they had just started a firesale which people started queuing since last night. Those lucky ones in line are getting a BlackBerry Bold 9780 from as low as RM3. We are also informed there are other random lucky draws that offers the device for cheap at Berjaya Times Square.
Now the plans are officially out for both U Mobile postpaid and prepaid customers. As teased earlier, they have daily BIS at RM1.50/day, weekly BIS at RM10/day and monthly BIS at RM40/day. For other data usage including tethering and video streaming, U Mobile charge 5sen per MB which is U Mobile’s latest PAYU data rate similar to TuneTalk.
U Mobile initiates debt collection on prepaid users?
Posted:
January 16, 2011
By: soyacincau
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We’ve received a tip off that U Mobile had started a debt collection exercise on customers with outstanding amount. This was done through a third party debt collection agency on behalf of the telco.
While telcos have the right to collect payment for services rendered, we are told that U Mobile is even demanding outstanding payments from its Prepaid users. This is rather strange as prepaid users are obviously pay before use type of customers. So far we know 2 of such cases where the affected users had stopped using U Mobile Prepaid a year ago.
The way this debt collection exercise is conducted raised a few eyebrows. Firstly how could prepaid customers accumulate outstanding debt since technically they shouldn’t be able to use beyond their top up credit? Next, shouldn’t U Mobile contact the customer first before passing their details to their debt collection agency? So far the warnings are sent only via SMS which we question the legality of such notice and we feel that such demand should be done officially in writing.
Initially we thought this could be a scam but a quick check revealed otherwise as the debt collection agency is real and the message directed customers to make payment direct to U Mobile instead of a 3rd party account. We believe this could be a mix up with their billing and customer profiles but we definitely find it strange for a prepaid users to end up owning money to a telco. After all, prepaid should be free from contracts and bills.
U Mobile revamps U Prepaid plan
Posted:
September 23, 2010
By: soyacincau
3 comments
In the midst of the iPhone 4 fever in Malaysia, U Mobile decides to be the thorn among the roses. They have announced a revamp on its U Prepaid plan which now offers longer validity and reduced voice call rates.
Now the starter pack of RM8 comes with RM5 preloaded time time and 30 days validity. Nationwide call rates have been reduced to 18 sen/minute at 30 seconds block. Of course, this doesn’t beat Tunetalk’s 16 sen/minute rates. However for RM10 top up, you’ll get 30 days validity which is 3x more than others.
For more details, head up to U Mobile’s prepaid page.
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