U Mobile vs Webe
Which telco provider offer the best plan? This type of
question arise when we decide to choose our telco provider. Some factors that
may be taken into consideration are duration of contract, payment per month,
high speed data allocated per month, coverage, and other benefits.
In Malaysia, there are lot of telco providers currently
emerged in past few years. Around 2005, there might be only Celcom, Digi and
Maxis. Nowadays, there are U Mobile, redOne, OneXOX, and many more.
Internet is considered important nowadays. During those old
days, Internet was expensive so it might has limited usage. When the telco
providers start to introduce affordable Internet plans, so Internet is
important for human kind to do works, communicate, collaborate and interact.
Furthermore, invention of smartphones has lead us to use Internet in our single
daily life, such as shopping, searching for information and for watching
videos. Thus, it is crucial to choose the telco provider that offer the best
Internet plan.
Currently, there are 2 telco provider which provide
unlimited data plan to the consumers, which is U Mobile and Webe.
U Mobile
P78 is a new postpaid plan introduced by U Mobile. As stated
at the code of the plan, 78 is actually the commitment required to be paid
which is RM78 per month.
The data provided is unlimited, but capped at 5 Mbps. There
is also unlimited Video-Onz, but the video is limited to SD streaming only.
Those people who wish to watch high quality video at their high-end devices
might be unhappy due to these restrictions.
One of the advantage of choosing U Mobile is it offers
mobile hotspot for 10GB, but again the speed is capped at 5 Mbps. But still, it
is better compared Webe, which you have to pay to use the mobile hotspot.
However, currently Webe helds promotion of free 10GB mobile hotspot for their
customers.
However, some of my friends complained over U Mobile’s
coverage which is poor at rural areas. They argued that the coverage is only
strong at Klang Valley and few major cities in Malaysia.
Webe
Webe is one of the subsidiary under TM.
Users have to pay RM79 per month for monthly commitment
fees. This fees is relatively similar to which U Mobile has offer. However,
Webe allow up to 5 users to be registered under one account.
For 2nd
to 4th user, monthly commitment fees is reduced by RM10. This offer
seems attractive for families, as they can share the payment fees. If there are
5 users registered under one account, the average monthly commitment fees would
drop to RM61 per person.
Luckily, Webe doesn’t cap the speed of the unlimited data.
However, they do not provide hotspot to their customers. They have to pay for
extra RM15 for 1GB mobile hotspot. This might be appeared to be down side of
Webe.
For the coverage, most of my friends who used Webe give a
positive feedback regarding it.
Similarities
Both U Mobile and Webe provide unlimited local calls and SMS
to their customers. Plus, there is no contract. Customers are free to switch to
other telco if there is other attractive offer from telco provider.
Conclusion
Those offer are quite attractive. It may be an indicator of
healthy competition between those telco providers to strive in providing best
services to their customers. Customers also have lot of choices and
alternatives for their telco provider.
However, for students which usually have cash flow problems,
it is advised to choose the telco which is within their budget.
Hopefully there might be other attractive offer from telco
providers in the future.
Summary
U Mobile
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Aspect
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Webe
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High speed capped at 5 Mbps
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Data
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Not capped
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Good at Klang Valley and cities only
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Coverage
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Good
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10GB per month
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Hotspot
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No (but currently there is promo 10 GB)
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RM78
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Payment/month (before GST)
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RM79, but might be reduced to RM61 if sharing line
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Terer Thursday
Data Roaming 5GB
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Other benefit
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Unlimited data, call and message
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No contract
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