300Mb quota exceeded
January 3, 2011 11 Comments
DiGi Smart Plan LITE is the latest mobile internet plan from DiGi telco Malaysia. For a low price of RM28 a month, you will get 300Mb of data. Internet users in Malaysia are getting more cautious since telcos have started using a term called FUP, or Fair Usage Policy. Basically, this is where the telco will tell you that you have been allocated a certain amount of data usage allowance (maybe 300mb, 3gb or 6gb, some truly unlimited usage) and if you exceed that amount, the telcos will start doing weird and sometimes nasty things to your mobile service and bill.
But for Smart Plan lite, the first thing Digi will happily tell you is that if you exceed the quota, you will not be charged an extra sen, unlike some green M telco in Malaysia. But what happens to the speeds and can the internet still be used? I’ve been to a few DiGi booths and DiGi roadshows, included the latest one in 1 Utama New Wing Oval on the 2nd of January 2011. I asked one of the promoters there about the speed and according to him, the speeds will be throttled to 128 kbps. To make things clear, during the entire conversation, i only asked about the DiGi Smart Plan lite and not other plans, so the DiGi person was not confused.
128 kbps speeds after exceeded the quota maybe true for other plans such as the Broadband Discover Plan which i used previously personally but that’s not true for DiGi Smart Plan lite. DiGi has been lying to their customers because the true speed of DiGi Smart Plan lite after the quota is finished is actually only less than 10 kbps!!
I understand that if i wanted a needed quota, i should have gotten the more expensive Smart Plan, but since i was using Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds most of the time, 128kpbs would be acceptable for me after 300mb is all used up. Besides, 3Gb would be way too much. It’s only middle of the month and i’ve only used 300mb. I would be just paying blindly for more which i will never use in the end. However at these speeds, it’s better just to turn off internet entirely instead of waiting for pages to load. Final word of warning, depending on your usage, 300Mb is really very tight. You might even need to think twice if you wanna use data intensive functions such as Google Maps.
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I agree. 300MB is way too little. 3GB is too much, as is the RM68 price tag.
I’m waiting for U Mobile to allow its users to fallback on Celcom’s EDGE (something which is currently available for 2G voice calls only), rumoured to be sometime within this year. If that happens I will subscribe to U Mobile’s UB40 (2GB for RM40) and say bye-bye to DiGI’s Smartplan.
yupe, always the biggest concern with umobile is the coverage. if umobile can tumpang on celcom, that would be great.
first month right? most of the time, i favorite a tweet.. go back then surf. never surf on mobile, except needed. download also not from mobile. you get my drift.
its mainly for twitter + fb + gmail + 4sq. for navi, find gmap 5.0 for android. it has caching. so no need to redonwload the same thing again and again.
for the google maps, actually i was using google maps brut before this. you can download map tiles and store it in your sd card. i was trying thr new 5.0 so it redownloaded all the map files for me. i will try smartplan lite for another month or two if i still exceed. if it’s not enough for me, and Digi still doesnt relax the internet blocking rule, i’ll change to another telco just to test it out
Uboile data using Celcom GPRS/EDGE will not work most of time because Celcom GSM 900 mhz network have limited time slot available for data.
i’m not sure how it works actually, but if celcom really gets working with umobile on this data part, they will solve the limited slots first?
yoraid – just bought umobile unlimited mobile internet at RM28. Now can fallback to Celcom 2G data coverage when no 3G. Just the plan I want – more on data, less on voice. Not sure what is the FUP, not in the web site. Will let you know when I hit it.
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hello i recently got a nokia n8 from a friend. i plan to have celcom 300mb data plan. normally what i use is for whatsapp, msn, facebook and probably some email. will it be sufficient? because i have a friend who is using iphone told me he max also 400mb only.. probably no video, dl, streaming n etc what do u think? thanks yea
The real issue here is a big HOW Digi measure the 300MB usage. I’ve been using a few internet traffic counter app and it only show 150MB usage ( both up/download ) when i reached the limit. FYI, I reset the coutner everytime the new bill date start out….but Digi always sent me the 300MB limit over sms when i only use for 150MB+- from my traffic counter…..damn this is weird….am i paying for 300MB but end up only allow for half of it or 150MB ? ? ? What a ripoff….