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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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P1 W1MAX reached Port. Klang!
Nov 24th
A few days ago I was driving to go to my parent’s house and realize that there is a billboard on P1 W1MAX. They have reach Klang district in couple of months since it was launched. For me, that is quite a breakthrough.
Even other wireless broadband service providers that have been long in the market didn’t give a wide coverage as P1 in very short period of time. They have advertise in the newspaper and it seems they have spread out to a few major town nationwide (Alor Star, Johor Bharu and even Klang. hahaha…).
I’ve never use the P1 W1MAX service before, but I have a friend that uses it. He stayed at Seri Petaling and it seems that the connection and service is very good there.
Unfortunately it still doesn’t covers my housing area yet. Looking forward to it in the future. I can’t wait for them to provide a portable modem so that people can use it on the go as well. That will be great.
You can check whether they have coverage at your area by clicking here.
P/S: Sorry for the blur picture as my wife took it for me while I’m driving.
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The Rise of WiMAX at PC Fair II 2008
Aug 26th
Hello,
I was really busy and not well for the past few days. But I manage to make a post at WEBLOGkami.com. On my previous post, I did mentioned about WiMAX when I went to Pikom PC Fair II 2008.
WiMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access. Packet One (P1) is one of the first WiMAX licensees in Malaysia had setup a booth at PC Fair II to introduce their service on WiMAX.
WiMAX is like a faster WiFi service with coverage as big as a city. Yes, that is how big the coverage is. P1 W1MAX runs on the 2.3 GHz WiMAX spectrum and 802.16e standard, which is also known as Mobile WiMAX. It’s a technology that enables wireless broadband access up to 30 miles (50 km) for fixed stations. Plus, WiMAX is designed to deliver up to 40 Mbps speed per channel. That is fast.
Wireless@KL
To introduce the techonology, Packet One Networks (M) Sdn Bhd is collaborating with Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) bringing you “The KL Wireless Metropolitan Project“ or “Wireless@KL“. It is a FREE… I said it again… It is FREE, wireless broadband internet access service throughout the whole Kuala Lumpur. Users would be able to access speeds of up to 512kbps, at some of 1,500 Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) access points implemented throughout KL. You just need to register an account here. You can check the coverage at Wireless@KL too.
For faster speed you can register to P1 Hot Zone PrePaid Plan. Just check out their website for further info on the packages that they offered.
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