Celcom iPhone 4S Plans Revealed

Celcom Axiata has revealed their iPhone 4S plans, it matched our earlier insiders.

Celcom iPhone 4S (12-months contract)

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Nokia: Youths are fed up with iPhone, Android is complex

Nokia has a 27.9 per cent market share of the global mobile handset market, down from 32.7 per cent at the beginning last year. The world’s biggest cellphone maker has just 1% of the U.S. market and is struggling to turn around its own falling sales. On top of that, market share of Nokia in Finland also dropped to 31% for the 3rd quarter 2011, down from 76 percent the same time last year.

But all these does not stop Niels Munksgaard, the Director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia Entertainment Global to make the statement below: [...]

Update 7B- [Insider] Celcom iPhone 4S Plans/Price

We are not going to reveal the full Celcom iPhone 4S plan like we have done it with the Maxis iPhone 4S. The reason? Celcom will reveal the full iPhone 4S plans later today.

Consider this some details ahead of Celcom’s official announcement. [...]

Celcom Partners Broadcast Australia for the Digital TV Infra Project

Celcom is partnering Broadcast Australia to bid for the nationwide digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB) project in Malaysia.

[Farid Yunus, Chief Strategy and Business Transformation Officer of Celcom Axiata Berhad (far left) sealing the partnership with a firm hand shake with Brett Savill, Director, Strategy and Corporate Development of Broadcast Australia (second from left). Witnessing this momentous occasion are Dato’ Joseph Salang, Deputy Minister of Information Communications and Culture (second from right) and Dato’ Sri Shazalli Ramly, Chief Executive Officer of Celcom Axiata Berhad (far right)]

An agreement signed yesterday sees Celcom and Broadcast Australia forming a partnership that will bid for the design, construction and long term operation of the digital television infrastructure project. Together the companies will use their local knowledge of sites, local construction expertise, project management, design and operational expertise and planning as well as experience in satellite and terrestrial fibre distribution systems for the implementation of this project. [...]

Update 7- [Insider] Maxis iPhone 4 8GB Price & Plans

The 8GB iPhone 4 will retail(RRP) for RM1890 from Maxis.

The Maxis iPhone 4 8GB Plans & Device price below: [...]

Update 6A- [Insider] Maxis iPhone 4S Plans

We went through a lot of hard work to get this. Along the process, we have been warned by certain people to not publish this. But this what we do at MalaysianWireless, we love giving you insiders. So here’s the full Maxis iPhone 4S plans!

Hit the images below for a better view. [...]

DiGi iPhone 4S Plans revealed

DiGi has revealed their iPhone 4S pricing today after receiving approval from Apple last Friday.

DiGi iPhone 4S pricing below:

  • 16GB- RM2090
  • 32GB- RM2390
  • 64GB- RM2690

Customers must choose one the iPhone 4S above and sign up a 24-months contract with either iDiGi 88, iDiGi 138 or iDiGi 238. There is no 12-months contract.

DiGi iDiGi 88 iPhone 4S:

DiGi iDiGi 138 iPhone 4S:

DiGi iDiGi 238 iPhone 4S:



Comment: The DiGi iPhone 4S price appears to have low subsidy or no subsidy at all from DiGi. [...]

Tune Talk Hot Air Balloon

Yesterday the hot air balloon launched by Tune Talk had been endorsed by The Malaysia Book of records as ‘The Biggest Sim Card shaped hot air balloon’ in Malaysia with the size of approximately 100 feet tall and it can accommodate 3 adults at one time and also a pilot.

The event took place at Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur with the present of Jason Lo, CEO of Tune Talk Sdn Bhd and Datuk Danny Ooi, Founder of The Malaysian Book of Records. More pictures below. [...]

Tune Talk BlackBerry service now RM18/month

Tune Talk has just revised the BlackBerry Internet Service(BIS) package. The monthly BlackBerry Internet Service from Tune Talk now cost only RM18 a month.

When launched back in June, Tune Talk BIS service cost RM28/month and was the cheapest prepaid BlackBerry service at that time. U Mobile later lowered their BlackBerry Prepaid monthly plan pricing, now RM19/month. [...]

iPhone 4S- Apple Store Malaysia

The iPhone 4S now appears on the Apple Store Malaysia website. Similar to Maxis, Celcom & DiGi, Apple Store Malaysia said that the iPhone 4S will only be available starting December 16.

Customers in Malaysia can soon purchase the iPhone 4S online without contract at the Apple Store. Below is the expected retail pricing(RRP) in Malaysia that we revealed last month for the iPhone 4S: [...]

iPhones & iPad Sales could face ban in Germany

A German court has ruled in Motorola Mobility’s favour in a patents dispute with Apple, which could bar the sales of iPhones and iPads in the country.

The new ruling affects mostly all Apple’s mobile product with GPRS connectivity – the iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, iPad 3G and iPad 3GS. However the case is not closed yet but Motorola can choose to block sales of iPhones and iPads in Germany. [...]

U Mobile Friend Finder service

U Mobile has recently launched their Friend Finder service. The service allows U Mobile subscribers to check the location of their friends and family members.

However, prior permission needs to be granted from friends or family members before their location information can be made available via this service. [...]

Update 6: [Insider] Celcom iPhone 4S as low as RM558

Note: Please refer the previous post- Update 4: [Insider] Pre-Order Celcom iPhone 4S soon.

As we said before, chances of Celcom starting the iPhone 4S pre-order was difficult without revealing the price. Instead, Celcom allowed customers to pre-register for the iPhone 4S and the launch event will take place at La Bodega, Bangsar Shopping Center. Similar to Maxis, Celcom will allow customers to choose their “time slot” to purchase the iPhone 4S. The event start 9PM, details here.

We want to be the 1st to leak this information- Customer will be able to purchase the iPhone 4S 16GB from Celcom for as low as RM558 with the Celcom Exec i248 postpaid plan on a 24-months contract. [...]

Update 4: [Insider] Maxis iPhone 4S

Update 1, 9.55pm(Dec 8): Within the next few minutes/hour, users who have registered their interest for the Maxis iPhone 4S will receive an email that would allow them to book their spots for the next Friday launch(Dec 16). No iPhone 4S plan or pricing will be revealed yet. When this happens, it makes Maxis the 1st to allow customers to pre-order the iPhone 4S in Malaysia. To know why no pricing is revealed, visit our Facebook page.

Update 2, 11.35pm(Dec 8): Based on update 1, we are not sure how fast it will happen, but we believe Maxis will start the pre-order before Celcom. Serious stuff aside: We just made fun of our friend at Maxis for not telling us anything earlier..:)

Update 3, 12.40am(Dec 9): Maxis is blasting out this email to 100k people, so be patience. In the mean time:

Update 4, 12.49am(Dec 9): This is how the landing page will look like:


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The Maxis iPhone 4S registration of interest page is expected to be taken down any time now.

In the mean time we have been tipped that between 100-150k people have expressed interest to purchase the Maxis iPhone 4S!

The Maxis iPhone 4S grand launch will take place at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center(KLCC) on December 16. A check with some friends at KLCC showed that Maxis booked the entire ground floor of KLCC, both wings.

More updates below. [...]

Update 4: [Insider] Pre-Order Celcom iPhone 4S soon

Update 1, 10.25am(8 Dec)- Celcom iPhone 4S online pre-order scheduled to begin midnight 9 Dec 2011.

Update 2, 10.30am(8 Dec)- Celcom booked The Streets, Pavillion for the December 16 iPhone 4S launch.

Update 3, 10.15pm(8 Dec)- There’s high chances that Celcom might cancel their pre-order plans for the iPhone 4S midnight today. This is because they failed to get approval from Apple on the iPhone 4S plans and pricing. Even if Celcom execute the pre-order, it will happen without revealing their plans & pricing. Or Celcom can follow what Maxis is doing for pre-order here.

Update 4, 11.20pm(9 Dec)- You can now pre-register for Celcom iPhone 4S. As we said before, Celcom might not take any pre-order and reveal the pricing. However we were wrong about Celcom and Pavillion. The correct venue is La Bodega at Bangsar Shopping Center. But the BIG question here is how Celcom is going to cope with thousands of customers at this new venue. Pre-register Celcom iPhone 4S here.
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Celcom Axiata will start accepting pre-orders for the iPhone 4S very soon(we are expecting this week), unfortunately the iPhone 4GS won’t be AVAILABLE until December 16.

Maxis and DiGi are expected to follow the same, but we are not sure when they plan to do it. Just to make it clear, no Telcos get to claim that they will be 1st to offer the iPhone 4S in Malaysia. [...]