Saturday, July 04, 2009

DiGi Network Goes Offline

At the time of writing, DiGi, the third largest operator in this country had network problems and a large number of areas had no coverage or service failure started around 12am, 4th July 2009.

The affected areas are Gombak, Setapak, Segambut, Kepong, Sentul, Selayang, Sungai Buloh, and Subang Areas.

What happens when a network goes down? Most operators say that customers should check their website. So that is what I did :

As you can see, the website was last updated on 17 June 2009. There were also no announcement regarding the network problem on their Customer Helpline(016-2211800) other than their useless long announcement of their "Reload Bonus" which is extremely "helpfull" on a so called customer helpline.


Here's more screenshots taken on my phone:

DiGi Network Not Available:
DiGi Network is Available but No Access
DiGi Network is Accesible but no service can be used

At some time, it was restored but then the problem comes back again after few minutes. DiGi promises that their network will be restored on an average 4 hours, same as Celcom.

The last time DiGi network had problem, they rewared 50% off on calls for prepaid customers (technically, 50% off is still profitable on prepaid). This time, I have a Postpaid line, Prepaid line and a data line with DiGi, and all of it is not available now.

Network failures is something not acceptable when access to a mobile service is offered without limitations to customers.

Hope to hear from DiGi soon, probably next Monday.

8 comments:

Epool86 said...

its a good news then, mean digi users will get 50% off on call/sms again soon haha..

Beautiful Tonight said...

Mr Epool86 is always comment on DiGi failure but cherish on Celcom so-called success,,, Mr Epool86 so One Malaysia, r u from Celcom mgmt?

maxis said...

why not switch to maxis instead?

K. Kugan said...

Dear maxis,

Thanks for your comment. Just to tell you that I am at Maxis Centre KLCC now because the porting to Maxis was so "easy". Thanks MAXIS.

Anyway that's a different story and I might blog about it when the time is right.

Xeon said...

just a small problems, still batter than maxis & celcom.

switch to DiGi just need about 5 hours(not 5 days), how about maxis, is it faster?

Epool86 said...

to Beautiful..

lol, im not from celcom.. i just normal celcom fan.. thats all.. dont take it seriously ok.. it just like when Arsenal fan condemn on MU club.. haha

Beautiful Tonight said...

port to Maxis need 24 hours (exactly 24 hours). It's my real experience MNP from Celcom to Maxis.

MNP to DiGi just need less than 10 hours. It's my real experience MNP from Maxis to DiGi.

Never port to Celcom, never knew, cause never interested on Celcom package.. expensive among all.

Gemima said...

That's what happens when the CEO is on holiday AGAIN - or is it a 'business trip' to Sweden - and there is no one at DiGi who knows what to do in a crisis....you wouldn;t want to spoil his holiday would you?