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Celcom and IPTV

I have heard that Celcom is testing IPTV on its 3G network. The rumor says that the test is at a very early stage and only certain people in Celcom knows about it. As far as I know, IPTV requires high bandwidth to work. Even Malaysian IPTV provider like Yoonic is having difficulties to offer [...]

Celcom-Rihanna Concert

The upcoming Rihanna concert is being sponsored by Celcom, but looks like someone is not happy about the concert. Read this. It is not the first time as it happened before with other international artists such as Linkin Park, Mariah Carey, Pussy Cat Dolls, and Gwen Stefani. However, the local authorities has so far done [...]

Celcom buys 49% of Tune Talk

Celcom is buying 49% of Tune Talk or 2.625 million shares. Tune Talk‘s majority shareholder is Fernandes (Tune Ventures)-40% , Datuk Kamarudin Meranun- 30%, Dennis Melka- 25% and Tune Strategic Investment- 5%. Why would Celcom make such a move when it is bigger than Tune Talk and owns a large telecom infrastructure while Tune Talk [...]

P2P: Yes or No?

Someone pose me a question on P2P (peer-to-peer), which some of it includes whether it is right for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block P2P applications in their network. First of all, not all ISPs in Malaysia blocks P2P applications.P1 WiMAX P1 claims that it does not block P2P applications in its network. This is [...]

Celcom Network Goes Down (Update 2)

Gosh! Celcom Network was down for about 3.5 hours yesterday. It started about 9pm(November 14, 2008) till about 12.30am(November 15, 2008) when the network recovered. The problem seems to be similar to the one here, but this time…worst. I was at GSC Signatures in The Gardens with Packet One(P1) yesterday to watch the movie Quantum [...]

Go Mobile 2008 is less than 10 days!!!

The ultimate mobile lifestyle event is less than 10 days and it will be happening in PWTC next week. If you are reading this, do drop by to the exhibition that starts on 21st November 2008(next friday) till 23rd November 2008, 11am-9pm. There will be four main areas in the exhibition- Device & Accessories, Innovation, [...]

Celcom UOX site

I have just discovered that Celcom has set up a new website for its U.O.X prepaid plan. As you may already know, the Celcom U.O.X and S.O.X prepaid plan currently offers the lowest voice call and SMS rate at 15 sen and 6 sen respectively to all domestic numbers. Visit the new U.O.X website here- [...]

51 reasons with Celcom

Here’s 51 reasons to be with Celcom. Actually they managed to come out with 55 reasons, but because this country just celebrated its 51st anniversary, so they decided to make it 51. See the rest here.

New Celcom MNP ADs-Video

Here’s the latest advertisement from Celcom. According to the Celcom CEO, these ad might piss off the other operators. The campaign was developed by M&C Saatchi. It is targeted at Maxis and DiGi customers, suggests that all mobile numbers including prefixes previously owned by competitors’ brands, would now be owned by Celcom. The videos are [...]

A new Celcom begins

Now Celcom has rebranded their prepaid plans. For those aged between 12-25 years old, Celcom is offering the UOX and SOX starter packs. Calls are as low as 15 sen per minute to any numbers and a maximum 6 sen per SMS. I believe this is currently the lowest prepaid rates in the country and [...]

Telcos in PC Fair

The smart PIKOM has placed all the telcos in one section. Picture below shows DiGi at the up(far left end in yellow), Maxis in the middle(the largest/longest telco booth in green), TM on the right(far right in orange) and Celcom at the bottom (in blue).DiGi Dealer and Maxis Sales Team selling side by sideMaxis bought [...]

iPhone 3G coming to Malaysia?

Looks like iPhone 3G is coming to Malaysia, officially. It was first reported in The Malaysian Insider that the iPhone 3G will soon be available via Maxis and it will be priced under RM1,000. Later Maxis’s spokesperson said that we “decline to comment on speculation“, as normal. In the 2008 Mobile Content Challenge that took [...]