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UniFi is an amalgamation of “Uni” which denotes togetherness and camaraderie, while “Fi” symbolises fibre optics. This is a new service provided by TM Net Sdn Bhd, an Internet Service Provider in Malaysia.
Initiated and signed in September 2008, the RM11.3 billion national HSBB (High-Speed Broadband) project is a PPP agreement between TM and the government to develop next generation HSBB infrastructure and services. TM is putting up RM8.9 billion while the government is co-investing RM2.4 billion on an incurred claims basis based on project milestones reached by TM.
UniFi is a bundled triple play service offering High Speed Internet, HyppTV (IPTV) and Voice.
The launch of UniFi is expected to intensify competition within the broadband space, which has seen the entrance of wireless broadband players like P1. Competitor YTL launched its WiMax wireless broadband in November 2010.
Malaysian government is banking on the HSBB project, which is the flagship of the National Broadband Initiative (NBI), to help Malaysia catch up with advanced countries such as Japan, Korea and Singapore, which have offered high speed broadband at relatively low prices for the past several years.
The rollout of Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s (TM) High Speed Broadband (HSBB) service, UniFi, continues to be on track with service availability now expanded to an additional 48 areas nationwide, bringing the total of premises passed to more than 750,000 at the end of 2010. This means that TM is well on its way to meet the targeted 1.3 million premises passed by the end of 2012 at the end of the first phase of the HSBB project rollout.
Unifi recently announced (via an email to registered Unifi users') that its adding nine new premium channels starting June 1st 2011. The channels will be:
Al Jazeera - http://english.aljazeera.net/ National Geographic Adventure HD - http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ National Geographic Music - http://music.natgeochannel.co.uk/ Syfy HD - http://www.syfy.com/ MTV NHD - MTV Network High Definition - http://www.mtv.tv/mini/MTVNHD-About-Us/ NickJR - http://www.nickjr.com/ SS Music http://www.ssmusic.tv/ tvN HD EMAS
Apart from that, in several remote cases, there have been unverified complaints about random disconnections on the service. There are also complaints about how packages comes in a bundle (customers wanting UniFi has to also accept the IPTV and phone package) and cannot be "unbundled", i.e. each component cannot be obtained separately, the inability to port the existing phone number over to UniFi, and inability to sign up only for the IPTV package when a customer is already signed up with a different ISP. Furthermore, many people outside its existing coverage area are frustrated with its slow roll-out speed, with people who signed up in during the PC Fair in August 2010 still waiting on the installation of the service. All sorts of excuse have been deployed by TM, ranging from modem shortages to cabling error due to inexperienced contractors.
5Mbps - MYR 149
10Mbps- MYR 199
20Mbps- MYR 249
Business Packages
5Mbps - MYR 199
10Mbps- MYR 599
20Mbps- MYR 899
Category:TM Group of Companies Category:Internet service providers of Malaysia
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