The Government of Malaysia has recently announced that all Streamyx users will be upgraded to Unifi through Telekom Malaysia (TM) by March 2019.
According to Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister, Eddin Syazlee Shith, the services will be upgraded in stages, provided that the users are in areas with access to Unifi.
“If the users are out of range or have no Unifi access, then the alternative is that their Streamyx speed will be upgraded to 8 Mbps or they will receive 4G LTE access. All of these upgrades will be free of charge without any additional cost,“ he said during Question Time in Dewan Negara.
This was brought up when he was responding to a question from Senator Ismail Ibrahim who wanted to know the measures taken by the government to tackle Streamyx disturbances and offset its high cost compared to the data subscription capacity for rural users.
“These measures were part of the government efforts to offset the relatively high cost of Streamyx services at the moment while, at the same time, the higher capacity with Unifi was being offered at a lower cost,” he added. For the time being, there’s still no information if the Government would come up with a lower rate for Streamyx. Till then, we shall wait for further announcement given by the Government.