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Residential Packages

VIP 5 / VIP 10 / VIP 20

Business Packages

BIZ 5 / BIZ 10 / BIZ 20

Telekom Malaysia’s just launched High Speed Broadband Service (HSBB)

Residential subscribers can opt for a 5Mbps, 10Mbps or 20Mbps.

The 5Mbps package is priced at RM149 per month, the 10Mbps at RM199, and the 20Mbps at RM249. The subscribers will have to sign on for two years contract.

Each package also comes with a Dect (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) phone, a set-top box for IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), Streamyxzone ID for wireless web access, and a 2GB e-mail box.

The amount of data that can be downloaded using each of the packages will be capped, in an effort to maintain high surfing speeds.

The 5Mbps package has a 60GB monthly cap on downloads; the 10Mbps package has a 90GB cap, and the 20Mbps package has a 120GB cap.

UniFi is now available in Shah Alam, Subang Jaya, Taman Tun Dr Ismail and Bangsar, in the Klang Valley. It will be rolled out to more areas nationwide over the next two years.

There are business packages available for corporate subscribers. As with the home user service, these are also divided into 5Mbps, 10Mbps and 20Mbps packages.

There are no caps on the corporate packages, but prices are much higher. Companies will have to pay RM199 a month for 5Mbps, RM599 for 10Mbps, and RM899 for 20Mbps.

Will you go for TM Net HSBB Unifi if it’s available at your housing / business area? If me I will get a 5Mbps line and share among my neighbours! So do you want to share with me? Haha… or I will open free WIFI for my guest with HIGH SPEED Internet connectivity.

I hope this will bring our country to a faster broadband experience and we will not be lacked behind.

For further details please contact the following:
Call TM UniFi Centre at 1-300-88-1222 or E-mail to enquiry@unifi.my
Visit the nearest TMpoint

HSBB Unifi Official Website : http://www.unifi.my/

Hmm I was wondering why my BlackBerry constantly connected and disconnected from the network and most of the time only I could get “edge” in small cap instead of “EDGE” big cap. When you see “EDGE” meaning you are connected to the network and able to send / receive emails and surf and IM or twitter. Arghhh, what happened to Research in Motion – RIM?

I have been searching high and low and found some source said it’s North America, but how come I can’t be connected to “EDGE” and affected? I’m not sure whether my case is related or not, but I don’t see any other BlackBerry users complaining about it?? Are you are BlackBerry user? Can you confirm whether is there any outage these few days? It’s really driving my crazyyyy….!

BlackBerry users hit by eight-hour outage

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

* BlackBerry didn’t give reason for outage, which ended around 2:45 a.m. ET
* At one point, 100% of North American customers were affected
* A similar outage hit BlackBerry system last week
* Research in Motion says it has about 32 million global BlackBerry subscribers

(CNN) — BlackBerry customers throughout North America were without e-mail and Internet services for more than eight hours after a widespread outage that lasted until early Wednesday.

Customers began receiving e-mails again around 2:45 a.m. ET. Initial reports of outages came from BlackBerry around 6:30 p.m.

BlackBerry did not give a reason for the outage. It was the second such outage for users in less than a week.

At one point, BlackBerry estimated 100 percent of its customers in North America were affected by the outage, according to an e-mail sent to customers.

“BlackBerry subscribers may be unable to send or receive messages. Subscribers may also be unable to register their device, roam in another location, or use other services such as Internet browsing,” the e-mail said.

“BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers may be unable to use the BlackBerry Internet Service web site or perform activities such as creating new accounts, integrating third-party email accounts, or viewing email attachments.”

Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the devices, said it had about 32 million global BlackBerry subscribers as of the end of August.

BlackBerry phones run on multiple wireless carriers, including AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Verizon.

Source : CNN

25-27 November 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Dewan Merdeka, Seri Manjung

27-29 November 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Dewan Tunku Ibrahim Ismail, Kluang
Alor Star Mall, Alor Star – NEW VENUE
Terminal 1 Shopping Centre, Seremban

4-6 December 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur Map of Surrounding Car Parks
Penang International Sports Arena (PISA), Penang
Melaka International Trade Centre (MITC), Melaka – NEW VENUE

11-13 December 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Persada Johor International Convention Centre, Johor Bahru
LG Car Park Exhibition Hall, 1Borneo, Kota Kinabalu – NEW VENUE
Dewan Suarah, Bintulu

8-10 January 2010 (11:00am – 9:00pm)
Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak

PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (III) is here, which started from last week. It is the 3rd PC Fair of the year 2009. I went to PC Fair since few years back till now, every time there’s PC Fair I will sure go and have a visit no matter I have anything in mind to purchase or not. This year I would like to get the WD 1TB external HDD as my HDD gonna out of space coz took too much photo la!

But for me, I still like PC Fair in PWTC better, because the KLCC PC Fair really badly manage for the past few times, all one way straight and if you decide to go out or halfway, you can’t! That’s the main problem, besides jam, crowded, expensive food, expensive car parking fees etc. What to do??

Want to buy cheap laptop or netbook? cheap pc? cheap pen drive/thumb drive, external hard disk (HDD), dvd-r, dvd-rw, cd-r, ram, Broadband like Streamyx, IZZI, Maxis 3G Broadband, Digi 3G Broadband, Celcom 3G Broadband, P1 W1MAX with wiggy, HWM Magazine, PC.com, pc accessories, mouse, keyboard, speaker, camera, DSLR, GPS, Projector… etc and a lot’s more. Last PC fair I bought a Asus EEEPC 1005HA netbook which is very good deal! But now all the netbook or notebook / laptop sure come with Win7 liao lo.

This year I think there’s more Broadband war as the Potong campaign and new 3G Broadband in the market, Digi 3G Turbo etc…

Then maybe there’s antivirus war by Kaspersky (Jakie Chan as spoke person) and Avira (more nurse compare to last fair?) too!

For those who’s going for KLCC PC Fair, please check the car park map. It’s very useful to plan your journey if not the best way is to take LRT but if you buying heavy and huge stuff better drive. Please car pool and safe the environment too! =)

Most importantly some ppl just go all the way there to check some of the tech updates but some go all the way there to see leng luis? ahah.

Or you looking for PC Fair job or part time as a promoter? You could easily earn up to RM100-200 per day, if you are female you could make a lot more if you become those model that holding laptop or etc. Click here to find out more available PC Fair Part Time jobs @ AsiaPartTime

Will updates more if have latest news and I will be there next Sat / Sunday @ KLCC. Who will be there next week? Maybe could meet up or something?

Recently P1 W1MAX launched a series of Potong / Cut campaign to boost their sales and subscribers on the usage for P1 Wimax but a lot of mix reactions from different groups of ppl. Some older generation especially women very insulting and feel uncomfortable with the potong and the phrase they used in the ads. It’s very seductive and asking ppl to cut and making ppl think in a wrong perception. Now a lot of ppl is teasing each other by asking “Have you cut?” / “Sudah potong??”. Isn’t it very wrong? Will P1 in trouble, don’t think so as the advert run for a period of time without any distraction? Read more below on some of the complain in TheStar newspaper below. Btw Potong / Cut campaign ended on 31st Oct.

Potong Ads Part 1.

Potong Ads Part 2.

P1 CEO Michael Lai

Now our biggest broadband giant TMnet come out with another fight back campaign which telling ppl why cut? It’s like a war in broadband now. Streamyx advertise in major dailies by “a guy looks like Michael Lai (P1 W1MAX CEO)” carrying a modem with the notebook outside the window trying to search for signal. It’s clear to us that it’s a fight back and want to tell us (the consumer) that P1 signal could be not as strong as streamyx and need to walk around with your modem and notebook to look for the coverage! Haha. Good one TM! Again if you hear in Radio advertisement, there’s a mother scolding her son why cut? Cut liao so slow and “Cut your head la!” “切你的头” “Potong kepala kau”… haha. Trying to record the ads but can’t get the right time to record. Lol. I got will update again, till then.

Updates: Finally got the radio ads in Cantonese but have English version too!

P1 Tagline :
Cut Already ? Cut the wires. Cut the charges. Cut the lag

Streamyx Tagline :
If it’s not Streamyx, it’s not good enough

Who might be beneficial here? I would say the advertising company and the media who publish the ads. Am I right? =)

I could help you to come out with better idea and brainstorm perhaps? Call me. haha.

Groups want suggestive ad snipped

THE “Cut Already?” P1 WiMAX advertisement has created a furore among several quarters, especially women’s groups, for its suggestive connotation, reported Nanyang Siang Pau.

Kuala Lumpur-Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall Wanita chief Alice Lee urged the company to retract the advertisement because it made women feel uncomfortable.

“It was done in very bad taste and is filled with sexual innuendo,” she said.

Blogger Teo Bak Kim said he was surprised that the commercial was approved when the Government was well known to be strict in advertisement regulations.

“It is vulgar and its suggestive remarks set a trap for the audience to make the negative association,” he said.

Wanita MCA chief Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun said she would write to the company and demand that the advertisement be pulled out.

“The company should apologise because the advertisement is insulting and it discriminates against women,” she said.

She also urged advertisement producers to be more sensitive and to stop making disrespectful commercials.

Deputy Information, Communications and Culture Minister (II) Heng Seai Kie said the advertisement was rejected by RTM for not complying with its code of content.

“It is now only allowed to be broadcast on private television stations.

“However, I have directed the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to study its content and see if it contains any sexual references or not,” she said.

Source : TheStar

Connection Interrupted

The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again.

Network Timeout

The server at XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is taking too long to respond.

Above error looks familiar?

These few days is your internet stuck? Like cannot move or keep getting disconnected?

Load facebook also take ages… Load twitter also… Download, torrent, streaming, youtube, online game no need to say… What to do? Still using streamyx.

Is your connection to international site ok? Will it be slow? Connection timeout? Keep disconnecting? Streamyx got problem? Sometimes load pages also time out! Read the details below there’s some updates.

Due to the delay, full recovery of Internet services is now expected to be on 9 April 2009.
Hopefully they can really solve it and not keep delaying it while we the internet users will suffer.

Updates

07/04/2009

SERVICE INTERRUPTION

Dear Valued Customers,

Referring to our earlier statement on 31 March 2009 on the disruption of our Internet services due to circuit faults on the Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 3 (SMW3) cable network between Tuas, Singapore and Penang linking Malaysia to Hong Kong and Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) near Chongming, China connecting Malaysia to the United States, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to announce that there is a delay in the restoration of Internet services due to technical problems at the repairing stages.

Due to the delay, full recovery of Internet services is now expected to be on 9 April 2009.

Customers using Internet services may continue to experience slow browsing while accessing websites hosted in the US and Hong Kong. In addition, customers using other IP services such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other critical business applications linked to the US and Hong Kong may also experience some service degradation. To alleviate the problem, some of the links have been directed to alternate routes to ease the congestion.

TM wishes to assure its customers that it is undertaking all necessary measures to restore communications services for its customers as soon as possible.

Customers can call TM at 100 and select “Internet Services” or e-mail us at help@tm.com.my for any Internet related problems.

Source : Streamyx.com

31/03/2009

SERVICE INTERRUPTION

Dear Valued Customers,

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to announce that there is a disruption of its Internet services due to circuit faults on the SMW3 between Tuas, Singapore and Penang linking Malaysia to Hong Kong and APCN2 near Chongming, China connecting Malaysia to the United States. As a result, customers using the Internet services may experience slow browsing while accessing websites hosted in the U.S. and Hong Kong.

In addition, customers using other IP services such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other critical business applications linked to the U.S. and Hong Kong may also experience some service degradation.

To alleviate the problem, some of the links have been rerouted to alternate routes to ease the congestion.

Restoration works on the affected cables are already in progress. However, during the restoration process, traffic to Northern America and Hong Kong may experience degradation. However, traffic to other countries will not be affected. TM expects complete recovery of its services by 5 April 2009 and will make further announcements on the progress of the restoration works.

TM wishes to assure its customers that it is undertaking all necessary measures to restore communications services for its customers as soon as possible.

Customers can call TM at 100 and select “Internet Services” or e-mail us at help@tm.com.my for any Internet related problems.

Thank You.

Source : Streamyx.com

These two days is your internet stuck? Like cannot move or keep getting disconnected? Load facebook also take ages… Load twitter also… Download no need to say… What to do? Still using streamyx. Is your connection to international site ok? Will it be slow? Streamyx got problem? Sometimes load pages also time out! Read the details below.

View updated post here!

SERVICE INTERRUPTION

Dear Valued Customers,

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to announce that there is a disruption of its Internet services due to circuit faults on the SMW3 between Tuas, Singapore and Penang linking Malaysia to Hong Kong and APCN2 near Chongming, China connecting Malaysia to the United States. As a result, customers using the Internet services may experience slow browsing while accessing websites hosted in the U.S. and Hong Kong.

In addition, customers using other IP services such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other critical business applications linked to the U.S. and Hong Kong may also experience some service degradation.

To alleviate the problem, some of the links have been rerouted to alternate routes to ease the congestion.

Restoration works on the affected cables are already in progress. However, during the restoration process, traffic to Northern America and Hong Kong may experience degradation. However, traffic to other countries will not be affected. TM expects complete recovery of its services by 5 April 2009 and will make further announcements on the progress of the restoration works.

TM wishes to assure its customers that it is undertaking all necessary measures to restore communications services for its customers as soon as possible.
Customers can call TM at 100 and select “Internet Services” or e-mail us at help@tm.com.my for any Internet related problems.

Thank You.

Source : Streamyx.com

I just received a SMS from Digi telling me that Digi Broadband is in PJ now. It’s still their soft launch, that’s why you did not see much info or advertisement about the Digi Broadband or 3G. It’s not their style, they will advertise in a very creative way for Digi Broadband I guess. Stay tuned.

Great news! Digi broadband is finally available near you. Visit rediscoverbroadband.com.my for more information or drop by our Digi Center in SS2 fr 26-28Feb09.

After I got the SMS I went to rediscoverbroadband.com.my, their content is updated and some terms also being updated.

We’ve got good news! We’re extending our laptop & broadband promotion. All you have to do
is swing by the SS2 DiGi Centre in Petaling Jaya from 26th – 28th February 2009 to check out
the promo. No registration required!

This offer is valid on a first come first served basis and stocks are limited.

Broadband Laptop Promo Package
HP CQ40 Laptop Specs
• Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor T3400 (2.16 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 Cache)
• 2GB DDR2 Memory
• 320GB 5400 rpm
• 14.1″ TFT WXGA high definition widescreen LCD panel with brightview technology
• DVD +/- RW Double Layer Drive with LightScribe
• Integrated 802.11b/g
• 5-in-1 intergrated digital media reader slot
• One year International Limited Warranty (parts/labor/carry-in)
• Microsoft Windows Home Vista Basic
Terms and Conditions
• Limited laptop units @ RM 999.
• Each laptop purchase would require the purchase of the broadband package

Broadband Promo Package
Features
• Download speed: up to 3.6Mbps (FREE Trial of up to 7.2Mbps)
• Upload speed: up to 384kbps (FREE Trial of up to 2Mbps)
• Quota: 50GB (connection will be throttled to 64kbps when the
quota is breached)
• FREE Broadband E230 HSPA modem (with free MicroSD card)

Terms and Conditions
• Price: RM128/month for 6 months (normal price at RM158).
Price returns to RM158 after 6 months.
• Contract period: 12 months. Should the customer decide to terminate the service before the contract expires, an early termination penalty will be imposed at either the cost of the
modem (RM600) or the remaining balance of the contract value,
whichever is lower.
• Advance payment: 2 x monthly fee (RM256).
• FREE Trial of 7.2Mbps speed is at DiGi’s discretion and valid for contract period of 12 months.

Previously was 10GB but now changed to 50GB Fair Usage Quota? But their FAQ page still have not updated yet.

Q11: What is the usage limit for this broadband service?
A11: The broadband service comes with a data quota/usage limit of 10GB.

Q12: What will happen if I exceed my limit?
A12: Your broadband connection will be throttled to a lower speed.

I have received email saying that Sun will rise continuously for 36 hours on 17 October 2008? I was curious and I did a search and found out that it’s actually internet rumor. So let’s see whether it’s true or not on October 17!

Description: Internet rumor
Circulating since: Aug. 2008
Status: False

Summary: Baseless online rumor claims “the sun will rise continuously for 36 hours” on October 17, 2008, turning three regular days into “two big days” — an event which supposedly only happens once every 2,400 years.

Variant #1:
Email example contributed by Swapnil D., Aug. 27, 2008:

FW: Sun will rise continuously for 36hrs (1.5 days)

Coming October 17, 2008 the sun will rise continuously for 36 hrs (1.5 days). During this time the US countries will be dark for 1.5 days. It will convert 3 days into 2 big days. It will happen once in 2400 yrs. We’re very lucky to see this. Forward it to all ur frenz

Variant #2:
As posted online, Aug. 17, 2008:

Coming October 17, the sun will rise continuously for 36hours (1.5 Days) In this time the US countries will be dark for 1.5 Days. It will convert 3 Days to 2 Big Days. It will happen once in 2400 years. We are very lucky to see it. Don’t miss it!

Comments: Poppycock. Let’s begin by applying some grade-school science to dispel the ridiculous notion that the sun even could “rise continuously for 36 hours.”

The reason we perceive the sun as “rising” or “setting” every 24 hours is because the earth rotates on its axis while revolving around the sun. It does not — and cannot — stop rotating, nor does its speed appreciably fluctuate (various factors such as climate and seismic events can cause miniscule changes in the earth’s rotation speed, but according to scientists all of these combined add up to a differential of no more than one second per year).

In order for a day to last 36 hours, the earth’s rotation would either have to cease altogether or slow down dramatically — neither of which ever happens, let alone once every 2,400 years. It’s physically impossible.

But you knew that, right? What you’re really wondering is where this strange idea came from.

Obscure origins of an absurd prediction

Based on the available info (of which there is very little, admittedly), my best guess is that it began as a prank, pure and simple; that it originated in India; and that the perpetrator(s) of the hoax put a great deal of effort into disseminating it.

Here’s what I’ve been able to establish:

* During a one-month period from mid-August to mid-September 2008, over 15,000 postings containing the phrase “the sun will rise continuously for 36 hours” appeared on the Internet.

* Nearly all of these postings contained precisely the same wording.

* Nearly all of these postings originated from India.

* As far as I can tell, not a single word about a October 17 being a 36-hour day appeared in any source, online or off, prior to August 2008.

Source : about.com