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Wireless Broadband at PC Fair 2009 (I)
May 10th
Sorry that I don’t really have much post recently as I’m very busy with my son’s “aqiqah” and my father was sick. Anyway, just a short post on the Wireless Broadband service provider at PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I).
The war on wireless broadband at PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I) is getting bigger. They have booth at both upper and lower halls and their booth are massive.
P1 W1MAX
Always the one that I will expect some new thing or changes from them. P1 W1MAX applies the same marketing technique that they used last year that is the money booth (actually I’m not sure what it is called). After you sign-up to any of their package, you will have the chance to get into the money booth (you can check the image below) and need to catch as many paper money that you can get when they started blowing air into the booth.
They said that inside the booth there is one RM5000 paper money inside and that is the highest value. Anyway, after you did just that, you will entitled a deduction of your subscription for their service from the total paper money value that you’ve collected.
P1 W1MAX Wiggy
Before, I was wondering when will they have their own portable modem and this time P1 have reached my expectation. The new device is called “Wiggy”. Yeah… it is a portable modem from P1. No SIM card is needed not like other service provider as it just received signal from the Wimax transmission. The package that comes with it is RM149 (12 months contract) and speed for up to 10Mbps speed and 10GB data transfer usage. That is really cool. The price is a little bit to high for me but it is suitable for anyone with heavy Internet usage and downloads. The first payment will be as follows:
- WIGGY Portable Modem Fee: RM299
- Registration Fee: RM100
So the total will be RM399. Activation fee for RM60 will be charge in the first bill. Wish that they will have a cheaper package and I don’t mind with a lesser speed, maybe 5Mbps for RM90 will be great.
They have a package with a netbook as well. You can get an Acer Aspire One Netbook for free when you sign up for WIGGY with a 24 months contract (only with selected credit card). You need to pay RM459 upfront and RM149 monthly for 24 months.
Celcom Wireless Broadband
I don’t want to touch much on Celcom. I think they have the most sales people around PC Fair and some of them I’m met at the Celcom Wireless Broadband Roadshow. Celcom does not have any special promotion for their Wireless Broadband service. The one that I know of is RM250 for the Vodafone modem (no contract) and you need to subscribe to one of the wireless broadband package.
Maxis
The largest or the most booth for wireless broadband service provider. They have a lot of sales people as well. From only RM88 a month for Maxis postpaid customer. You can see more details from the image below.
From 88 a month if you’re a Maxis postpaid user. The payment is only for 1 year, after that you will have to pay RM118. No contract. Just return the modem once you want to cancel the subscription. The reasons that I do not want to subscribe to Maxis is because it only gives you 3GB data transfer usage and so far the coverage is not that good around my area as I’m using Maxis postpaid line and so far the coverage is not that good.
This is a short post that I can write about the Wireless Broadband Service Providers at PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I). Sorry for the late post.
Note: Most of the promotion above are for PC Fair only.
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About PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I)
Apr 26th
This time PIKOM PC Fair is better compared to the previous fair. Actually it is amazing. I went on Friday after work and Saturday to accompany my brother to purchase a notebook.
Although I didn’t manage to cover all the booth there because of the time constrain (actually I can’t stand the crowd) but from my view, it is a very good event this time.
PC Fair upper halls
Like PC Fair 2008 (III), Intel have their own hall called PC Guru to explain more about their line of new products. It was really cool to see the multiple screen preview.
On the other side of the hall was the “R U Sony?” event. I’m not really sure what it is all about but from what I know of, it is the preview of their latest product and the reason that I don’t want to find out about it is that the queue is very long.
The first hall now have all the wireless broadband service provider. The largest will be Maxis and Celcom of course. The offer for Maxis Broadband is RM88 with modem without contract for Maxis postpaid user. Celcom Wireless Broadband offered RM250 for the Vodafone modem only with no contract if you apply the D68 or D98 package. Will write more about the wireless broadband at PIKOM PC Fair in future post.
This time they do not have the hall for all the audio devices. I’m not sure why, but they replace it with notebooks. So, the hall of audio devices became the hall of notebooks. The price is really cool, especially from HP. I love HP notebooks.
Here is where my brother bought his notebook, the “HP TouchSmart tx2″. Damn cool device. My dream notebook… Sigh… Will make a review on that machine soon. Anyway, after waiting so long for the notebook, we continue to another hall that have all the big players in the IT industry same as the first hall still in the notebook category of vendors.
One of the obvious thing is that there are less PC Fair Babes around this time compare to before, but there are more photographer with their DSLR camera around. Hehe… no comment on that…
PC Fair lower halls
After all the hall above, we went down. Here they have the small vendor most of it from all over Klang Valley. Compare to the previous fair, this time there are less booth that sells notebook skin but more on the other accessories such as cooling pad, headphones, mouse and lots of notebook bags. Yeah, there are lots of notebook bags everywhere. From branded notebook bags such Golla to a RM35 bag, from backpack to trolley bag you can get it there.
Booth from Inter – Asia Technology Sdn. Bhd. promoting the “steelseries” (professional gaming gear) nice too. They have these gaming gear that are really cool especially the “World of Warcraft” series. I’m not so into the PC gaming nowadays but all those gears are really cool and it makes me like want to go to the gaming world again. From mouse, mouse pad, headphones and keyboard all is really nice to use. The mouse and keyboard from the “World of Warcraft” is really cool and it is really expensive.
There are a few booth that sells GPS and it seems like there are more of them this time compared to the previous fair. There is one booth that have my attention, it sells solar panel charging device. You can charge your handphone, digital camera, etc. under the sunlight or just normal light or you can charge the solar panel charger and you can charge you gadgets later even without sun light or any light at all.
At the end of the hall there are still some booth by wireless broadband service provider. I bought my Celcom Vodafone modem and subscribe to the Celcom Wireless Broadband. I got the modem for RM240 with no contract and additional RM98 for the first month subscription. That is good for me although not as good as what my brother got at the Celcom Broadband Roadshow.
Summary
Overall PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I) is great. Hope it will continue to be like this and even better. The same thing that I realize is that there are more booth on broadband services and they hire a lot… I mean a lot of sales people… They are everywhere when you pass by their booth and the booth are freaking big.
They have booth on upper and lower hall. It seems that the wireless broadband service providers are really serious on selling their services. I hope that some of them will make their service better before really promoting it.
Purchase
At last what all of us purchased from the fair:
Myself: Notebook cable lock, USB LED light, clip-on microphone, Celcom Vodafone modem and subscribe to Celcom Wireless Broadband (D98: 3.6 Mbps)
My brothers: HP TouchSmart tx2.
Our family friends: WD External hard drive.
My brother collected a free gift from PIKOM because of his purchase that are above RM300 and I forgot to collect mine. He got a 2GB PIKOM USB thumbdrive (see image below).
Share your experience at any PC Fair in Malaysia.
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Celcom Wireless Broadband Service Review
Apr 25th
After using it for a few weeks, this is a review for Celcom Wireless Broadband based on my purchase of the Celcom Wireless Broadband at the PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I) and from the usage of my brother’s Celcom Wireless Broadband before I’ve purchased mine.
Installation:
It is easy to install the modem. Everything is plug & play nowadays. You just need to insert the USB Celcom Vodafone Modem in the USB port and follow the simple instructions of installing the driver for the modem.
Connectivity & Speed:
Connecting to the wireless broadband is very simple indeed. You just need to plug-in the modem if it is not plugged in and run the Vodafone Mobile Connect Lite. The program will scan for the device (Vodafone modem) and then try to link to the wireless broadband service that can be detected.
I’ve tested the service at 3 different places. First would be at home, then my parent’s house and my in-laws’ place.
At home (Pandamaran Jaya) have the 2nd highest speed among the 3 places that I’ve tested the wireless broadband. From the screenshot below you can see the download and upload speed of the service at my housing area.
At my parents’ house (Kampung Raja Uda) the speed is a little bit slower than my housing area and it is the slowest among the 3 places. The speed vary in different area in the house itself as when we check the coverage, that area is in between the HSDPA and 3G zone. So the connection and speed changes in different area within the house. Please refer to the screenshot below to see the average download and upload speed.
Lastly is my parent in-laws’ house (Bukit Tinggi) have the highest download speed among all. Refer the screenshot below. It reached more than 2 Mbps at times.
It seems that it a great service for me as all the area that I always go around have more than 1Mbps speed.
Usage:
The usage is limited to 5GB a month. They will tell you that the service is unlimited but that is all just crap. The only broadband service provider that gave unlimited usage is iZZi and Streamyx. If you are a heavy downloader than you better get a Streamyx line or other options (if any). It works fine with me as sometimes my wife like to watch some drama series that she missed at www.tv3.com.my and it still didn’t exceed the 3GB after a few weeks. I just use to blog and check my email and sometimes watch some YouTube videos.
Summary:
So far, I’m very happy with the Celcom Wireless Broadband Service compared to iZZi that I took last year. Hehe… You can check my review on iZZi. Maybe because of the Celcom coverage that is very big and I will try to test it at a few more places and we shall see how good Celcom Wireless Broadband really is.
Anyway, for RM98 a month it really didn’t disappoint me in terms of the coverage that it provide and the speed.
If you have similar or any experience using Celcom Wireless Broadband, please leave your comment.
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Celcom Wireless Broadband Road Show!
Apr 7th
Last week I went to AEON Bukit Tinggi with my family and there is a Celcom Wireless Broadband Road Show. I think that is what it is called. By chance me and my family bump into my brothers and he wanted to get the Celcom Wireless Broadband for himself.
The road show is held from 17th of March until 30th March 2009. It gathered a few Celcom Wireless Broadband agent/ merchant at one place. So there are actually few stalls and every stall have a different pricing for the Celcom Wireless Broadband packages or modem price.
Some offered RM299 for the Vodafone modem if you subscribe with to a Celcom Wireless Broadband package. Some other offered RM250 for the Vodafone modem with no contract attached. I’m so concern about the contracting as we’re not sure whether our area have a good signal for the wireless broadband or not. So, if we have no contract attached, we can cancel the service and use other service provider. We need to make sure that the modem can support other service provider as well, but now I think it won’t be an issue as most of the modem support all service providers, but just to make sure, we need to ask.
After going around nearly all the stalls, me and my brothers managed to find a great deal which is for RM299 you can get a Vodafone modem with one month RM68 Celcom Wireless Broadband package. We just need to add RM30 for the RM98 (3.6 Mbps) Celcom Wireless Broadband package. For me that is a great deal and the best part is there is no contract attached to it. We can cancel the subscription whenever we like. My brother paid RM329 for the Vodafone modem and 3.6 Mbps Celcom Broadband Wireless Broadband Advance Package (one month subscription included).
I told him to take it first as I want to see whether the service is good or not at my housing area and the area that I always go around as well. I wanted too wait for PC Fair as I hope there will be better deal there. Hehe…
Below are some of the pictures of the Vodafone modem:
In my next post I will write a review on the service from all the area that I use the service.
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