True to form, and meeting their promise of making prepaid Blackberry services available on their Hotlink service, Maxis has unleashed upon us their prepaid offerings for the Blackberry devices. When I checked my T-Mobile G1 a couple of hours ago which had a Hotlink SIM inserted and checked the USSD menu just for kicks, I saw that there is now an option for “Blackberry Internet Services”. To get it, press *100#, choose “services” and you should see a similar screen to the below:
Interesting, no? This means that you can now use any Blackberry device, not just the Curve 8520 which is still on pre-order, to access the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) on a prepaid service. Maxis must be the first operator in Malaysia to offer prepaid Blackberry services then, I assume? I ask this because I am a total Blackberry n00b, so I will wait for the experts to come in and correct me if I’m wrong.
I should be getting a unit myself, and if I do, hopefully I’ll be able to find enough motivation to do a quick review of it. Hopefully. Or RIM can send me a review unit, and then I’d be obligated to do a review. How about it, RIM? ;-)
And lastly, where’s Celcom’s offering? Oh wait, I remember – Celcom waits for people like me to tell the world about their latest offers, just like I told people about their HTC Hero plans. Maybe Celcom should retain me as their PR representative? :D
I was just at Ipoh Green Town yesterday to terminate my celcom 3G
( urgghhh !) RM68 unlimited package which was limited by tortoise crawl and am now with digi gprs,
…broadband done right ?
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
October 1st, 2009 at 10:23 am
@wizsurf, you mean DiGi GPRS is better than Celcom 3G?
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ANDY Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:22 pm
may be can say is GPRS o EDGE , it happen to me also , i drop the celcom 3g , use the digi gprs . reason because DIGI giving me uninterupted data flow, unlike celcom 3g can just stop or idling for few min ….wihtout any reason.
as we say ” sometime good sometime crazy”
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
@andy, DiGi only offers companies Blackberry services; they don’t offer it to consumers (yet). And it’s postpaid.
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I feel that way , or am I the only one ?
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
October 1st, 2009 at 1:07 pm
@wizsurf, the Celcom service is fine where I am…
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is it true the maxis already launched the prepaid blackberry service?
how much it cost?
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
October 1st, 2009 at 11:49 pm
@ianubis, yes, they have already launched the premium service of RM98 per month. See this post for details -> http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/09/maxis-launches-hotlink-brand-refresh.html
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@ Alpha Dog
thanks for the info..=)
nice to hear it..i hve wait for the prepaid package.
postpaid one is quite expensive. and need the contract.
hows the connection speed or the quality of the maxis BIS?
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
@ianubis, check out my other posts on the Maxis Hotlink Blackberry package. You need to buy the device at RM 1,199, then Maxis will credit a RM25 rebate into your account every month, so you need to be with them for 12 months to get the entire RM300 rebate, which turns a prepaid account into a contractual prepaid one!
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in malaysia the speed and quality is very subjective , depand on luck and location and support. dont expect too much…
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