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For quite sometime I don’t have any Internet access at home. I’ve been accessing the Internet from office all these while. Now I’m ready to go online again outside the office.

I’m looking for a wireless broadband because I want to buy a notebook/laptop in the future and I’m barely at home.

Now there are 4 choices that I know of in the market:

First we have the famous, most advertise, Maxis Wireless Broadband. They are doing nationwide promotion on it and now they have these modem skinning thingy that comes with it.

The second choice is the Celcom Wireless Broadband. The third is the Izzi Mobile Wireless Broadband and last, the Surf With U.

Maxis Wireless Broadband

I think we can see their advertisement or their agent nearly everywhere, but how about the coverage? I will cover about that later.

It cost RM138 per month for 3.6Mbps and one time activation fee of RM100. The limited edition skin is available at certain location, mostly in Klang Valley. You can send SMS as well (that will be a different charge). Now they have taken out the contract terms where last time, you need to have a contract of 12 months with them before you can terminate the service. The funny thing is that they giving you 7 days of trial period (they called it cooling-off period) where you can try it and terminate the service (you have to return the modem as well) with no extra cost if you’re not satisfy with it. They will return the activation fee to you too. If you have pass the 7 days period and you want to terminate the service, you need to pay a handling fee of RM200.

As for the coverage, it is improving. Compare to a few months back, it was really bad and I receive a lot of complaints from a lot of people.

My opinion: A little bit expensive compare to the other services providers, good 7 days cooling-off period, the coverage and the speed is getting better and cool looking modems.

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