Malaysian Telecommunication company - TM has finally launched its new High Speed Broadband brand called UniFi at Merdeka Square yesterday. UniFi is a convergence of 3 services namely broadband, video content (IPTV) and telephony.
IPTV is something exciting to look forward to as it is seen as a serious 2nd Pay TV operator. Just recently it had announced agreement with 20 content providers and this is expected to grow provided TM is aggressive in getting more channels. At time of launch, there will be 22 channels, video on demand and other interactive services.
3 packages are available with speeds of 5Mbps, 10Mbps and 20Mbps. This positions UniFi right above Streamyx that tops at 4Mbps. For its IPTV Content, a dedicated 8Mbps will be allocated for this purpose in addition to the broadband package. We believe this would allow IPTV content to stream on an exclusive bandwidth without interfering with broadband usage.
Availability is still limited to 4 exchange areas namely Shah Alam, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail (TTDI), Bangsar and Subang Jaya. According to TM, UniFi is now available to 311,000 premises in those 4 areas. It is expected that UniFi will expand to over 48 exchange areas by end 2010 which allows 750,000 premises potentially connected to UniFi.
Here are the details and the pricing of TM UniFi packages :
Techdy Bear views :
This is what Malaysian been waiting for - TM UniFi, a high-speed broadband. Broadband users in Malaysia are not happy and hardly satisfied with TM Streamyx, broadband service. Streamyx's broadband is slower than TM claimed to be. Often, the broadband connection interrupted for some reasons. I think UniFi should be the solution. UniFi still at the early stage. We certainly don't know how it will perform. Still, I think UniFi is way better than Streamyx.
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quite expensive.. no money ady..
agree, hope TM will lower its price for Unifi or just offer high-speed broadband without in package-form (price for this should be lower).