Leisure: U Mobile

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Welcome back to yet another product reviews from alexleow-kimmy.com. This time around I would like to review on one of the latest telecommunications company being setup at Malaysia. U Mobile Sdn Bhd is Malaysia’s newest 3G service provider and was founded in 1998 as MiTV Networks Sdn Bhd. U Mobile is a wholly owned subsidiary of U Television Sdn Bhd which was formerly known as U Telecom Media Holdings Sdn Bhd and MiTV Corporation Sdn Bhd. Utilising the 018 prefix allocated to the organisation by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), U Mobile seeks to enrich the lives of consumers by making communication, entertainment and information easily accessible through advance technology via one convenient, ubiquitous platform. In addition to offering mobile telephony and mobile data, U Mobile intends to be Malaysia’s first ever true mobile TV service provider with its Mobile LiveTV service that utilises internationally accepted Digital Video Broadcast – Handheld (DVB-H) technology. U Mobile targets to commence its mobile service and Mobile LiveTV user trial before the end of 2007. Based on Bloomberg's feed, KT Freetel, one of U Mobile's foreign investor, has announced that it is selling its 16.5% stake (62.6 million shares) to U Mobile’s major shareholder.

Now its headquarters is established at Berjaya Times Square in Kuala Lumpur and it was owned by Vincent Tan. Let me do a short review on U Mobile Coverage, Rates and it's Data Connection. Let's talk about the coverage of U Mobile. U Mobile is widely used in Malaysia and it has a wide coverage mainly in 3 states including the Klang Valley, Ipoh and Johor Bahru. In other states, U Mobile will used the Maxis coverage and it's also known as Domestic Roaming. Now you can roam in 3G as well. The coverage is not a problem and I would say it's stable and there's line almost everywhere in this 3 states else it will be domestic roaming. For call rates, it's not the cheapest for phone calls for all the plans but the most attractive comes from its data plan. For postpaid customers, you can select the package from RM28 onwards till RM88 with attractive data plan ranging from 1GB to 3GB. The calls per minute is between RM0.18 to RM0.20 respectively for all postpaid plan and it comes with a free calls up to 300 minutes. Please refer table below.

For prepaid plan, it's even more rewarding. Some great benefits can be found here where you can get free calls and SMS after you reload, 3X credit validity, free Facebook Credit for games, Free Roaming in Singapore and the best parts would be free calls to any U Mobile Numbers and you can subscribe to Unlimited Internet at either RM18 or RM28 with free calls and SMS as well. Now that's really rewarding isn't it.

For ME, I am currently using the prepaid plan where it was so lovely and a more flexible package that I can enjoy. I bough the SIM Card for RM8 and then topup RM50 and I get free calls to any U Mobile numbers for 50 days (from 12 midnight to 6.59pm daily) else RM0.03 per 30 seconds charging block from 7.00pm - 12 midnight. Besides I get 150 days of validity (RM50 x 3 = 150 days). How lovely isn't it. Even if you seldom make calls, it can lasts you for about 150 days before you need to topup. The best part is where it's even more rewarding and cheap where you can subscribe to Unlimited Internet for wither RM18 or RM28. I took the RM18 package which consists of 250MB quota data usage as well as 25 minutes free calls and 25 free SMS'es for 30 days. Now I can use this at my smartphone already. How cool was that? If you subscribe RM28 which consists of 500MB quota data usage as well as 100 minutes free calls and 30 free SMS'es for 30 days. The data connection meanwhile is good and super fast too with mostly HSDPA connection in the 3 major towns and good in domestic roaming. Do also checkout their broadband package at their website as well and the price is really cheap as well.

With the coolest data plan in town as well as it's the fastest mobile broadband in Malaysia with up to 42MBPS speed, I would say they are the best at the moment and I would strongly recommend you to port or change to U Mobile as it offers you more value not only for postpaid but for prepaid as well. The best part is it's value for money and cheap as well as it's affordable for everyone to use it too. Regarding the coverage it's not a problem and I would say it's nationwide coverage since they have domestic roaming with Maxis 2G and Maxis 3G if U Mobile is not available at the areas. It's the cheapest yet most affordable plan in Malaysia at the moment. Enjoy! MY RATING: 5/5

Please checkout U Mobile website by clicking here: U Mobile - Malaysia's Fastest Mobile Broadband, Free Calls & SMS