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Maxis denies re-listing

Maxis Communications Bhd has denied reports that the company is to be relisted this year after going private two years ago. “It was just rumours,” chief executive officer Sandip Das told StarBiz yesterday, without elaborating. Sandip Das … Maxis is investing RM3.5mil to RM4mil yearly to support its Cyberkids Camp programme CIMB Research, in a [...]

Maxis- Poor Coverage in Shah Alam

I have been a loyal postpaid Maxis customer for the past nine years. In August last year, I moved to a new address in Section 7, Shah Alam. Since the move seven months ago, I am surprised to find that the reception is intermittently bad to the extent that I am unable to receive or [...]

Latest on Maxis

Flat International SMS rate for Maxis Postpaid usersEffective January 1, 2009, Maxis will charge a flat rate for international SMSes to 20 countries. This flat rate is applicable to its postpaid users. Postpaid users will be charge RM1 per SMS sent from Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Macau, the [...]

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 [...]

Latest Facts About Maxis

Some latest facts about Maxis: Over 10 million subscribers 2.2 million 3G subscribers, 1.6 million active 145,000 Maxis Broadband subscribers (as of OCT, 2008) 3.8 million mobile Internet users(including WAP, GPRS, EDGE, 3G) 1.7 million MMS users 3.7 million Caller Ringtone users 2.4 million Friend Finder users 900,000 Background music users 200,000 users(in 3 months) [...]

Telco Talk Malaysia-Media sponsor for Femtocells Asia 2008

Telco Talk Malaysia is a media sponsor for the Femtocell Asia 2008 conference taking place next week. So what is Femtocell? Femtocell is a small personal base station that you could use at home to improve indoor coverage. It looks similar to a WiFi router and you need a broadband connection to use it. All [...]

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 [...]

"Unlimited" Limited Broadband

Are you are mobile broadband subscriber? Which mobile broadband plan are you subscribed to? Do you know that some broadband plans out there, which are so called “unlimited plans” but has a cap or maximum use limit in it? Maxis One of the mobile company that redefines the word “unlimited” is MAXIS which offers UNLIMITED [...]

Better Telcos, weaker Authorities?

I have met the CEO of Celcom, the CEO of DiGi and the CEO of Maxis. Meeting up with these 3 key people in the 3 main telcos, I have got a strong feeling that all three telcos are now moving towards the right direction in the industry. Maxis, in my own opinion, is a [...]

New Maxis Caller Ringtone "Renewal Fee"

For those who are not aware, Maxis has started charging RM2 every month per Caller Ringtone since Dec 17, 2007. In other words, if you have purchased a Caller Ringtone after Dec 17, then you will be paying RM2 a month for each Caller Ringtone stored for your Maxis number. For example, if you have [...]

Maxis Hari Raya Open House 2007

I attended the Maxis Raya Open House at Restoran Seri Melayu in KL yesterday. Here are some pictures: It was so packed that there were no place to seat. Anyway I am glad to meet Maxis Chief Executive Officer Mr. Sandip Das in person.

Mobile Number Portability gives DiGi hope for further success

Here is an interview with DiGi by Starbiz STARBIZ: No new spectrum – does that hinder DiGi’s growth? Morten Lundal: We have significantly less spectrum than Celcom (M) Bhd or Maxis Communications Bhd. We are somewhat at a disadvantage because of that. If we could get more spectrum, we are clearly a player that would [...]