The Need For Speed: Battle Of The Telcos

For Internet users, telco speeds is of utmost importance.

Who wants to wait forever for a download? We live in an era where everything is instantaneous. We look at four telcos, namely Maxis, Celcom, DiGi and U Mobile, on how they fare in speed at different locations. In the central region, we did tests in KLCC followed by Ampang in the east, Batu Caves in the north, Kajang in the south and Petaling Jaya in the west. To get a clearer picture, we interviewed users in those areas to find out which telco they use and their satisfaction with their telcos.

KLCC

"I'm Bazir from KL and currently using Maxis. So far, all the offers and services by Maxis are satisfactory to me. One thing I'll say about Maxis is despite the prices being expensive, the service is actually quite good. Why I say so is, because where I am mostly, in the central area, Maxis coverage is good. The speed is, also very fast. This is what I notice about Maxis. Maxis gives the best performance and fast speed where I am located. I am from Setapak."

Ampang

The next stop was Ampang Point in the east where the speed test showed Maxis clocking at 9.25Mbps download speed, Celcom at 14.8Mbps, DiGi at 0.04Mbps and U Mobile at 2.58Mbps. As noted previously, DiGi had some downtime so we couldn’t run accurate tests on it Sofi who lives in Ampang uses U Mobile but she is not happy with her them. According to her, the U Mobile suffers downtime frequently.