UniFi celebrates it first year today with 60,000 customers subscriber to its fibre-based broadband service. In a press release issued today TM reports UniFi subscriber base has grown from a little over 30,000 at the end of 2010 to double that just before the end of the first quarter of 2011.

UniFi also celebrates its first year of service by being one of the faster fibre optics broadband networks in the world with over 60 exchange areas with close to 800,000 premises covered compared to a year ago where it launched its service in just four areas – Shah Alam, Subang Jaya, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail and Bangsar. TM expects to meet its 1.3 million premises covered by the end of 2012.

To celebrate UniFi’s first year success TM is offering FREE viewing of all 23 HyppTV premium channels from 24 March to 30 April 2011 to all our UniFi customers.

HyppTV currently offers 37 channels via UniFi residential packages. HyppTV’s 14 basic channels continue to be provided FREE-of-charge for all UniFi residential package subscribers. 23 PREMIUM channels are available for purchase on an ‘ala carte’ basis from as low as RM3 per-channel per-month whereas Video-on-Demand (VOD) starts from RM8 per title for all genres, including Hollywood, Malaysian, Asian and Bollywood. Popular Hollywood TV series are available from as low as RM48 per title (whole series) per season, viewable for an entire month. TM currently offers more than 1,000 hours of VOD anytime convenient to them.

As happy and satisfied UniFi customers we would like to wish UniFi happy first year.

Official press release from TM on UniFi’s first year after the jump.

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Maxis just announced that it will pump in an impressive RM1.4 biliion to expand its 3G coverage by 20% this year.

The expansion will extend the telco’s 3G network coverage to 80% of the population by year end. As it stands, the it’s 3G network have about 60% of the population covered.

Mark Dioguardi, the Executive Vice President and Head of Network and Technology at Maxis said that the telco has a measurably bettter network in terms of call quality, coverage and the browsing performance.

Maxis indicated that there is now a significant shift in the way its subscribers are using its network, where about 70% its traffic is purely data. Maxis expects this number to grow to 80% by the end of the year. Speculation: Is Maxis making way for more data hungry devices like the iPad?

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