Homeline Wireless Service is a wireless service offered by TM, where customers can enjoy voice, fax and internet/data applications with a better quality of service (CDMA is the underlying technology on which 3G was built). It provides an alternative service to normal Homeline/Businessline telephony.
Call Charges
Call Charges are as per the normal PSTN tariff structure.
TM offers an option to select your preferred type of Mobile Wireless phone set (choice of 3 models in the photo above). Only the Huawei C506 supports fax and internet/data applications. The Huawei C2205 and Motorola W150i both only support voice and SMS.
No rental is charged for the Mobile Wireless phone set and customers are required to purchase the mobile phone set from TMpoint.
If you live in Kota Warisan or Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi, your CDMA phone number with start with 03-8731 XXXX and not 03-8706 XXXX. This is because Salak Tinggi is a border town (with 06-) and you may get inadvertant access through the Nilai transmitter (for which you will be charged 06- outstation rates). To resolve this issue, you wll be given a Semenyih or Dengkil number starting with 03-8731 XXXX. This will force your phone to use the Dengkil transmitter, and not the Nilai transmitter, thus giving you a lower rate when making calls to 03- numbers.
Undocumented Benefits
Get two CDMA phones registered in the same exchange, i.e. 03-8731 XXXX, and give one handset to a person living outstation, say studying at UMS or Unimas. You can then make calls to each other and be charged local call rates!
You may now apply for TM Retail's Consumer and Business Products at the:
Pejabat Pos Mini Kota Warisan
Wisma Azlan, 6 Jalan Airport City 2
Airport City Business Centre (next to Salak Tinggi Station)
Kota Warisan
43900 SEPANG
Contact: 1-700-80-POST
1) You can't receive sms from or send sms to 012, 014, 016 and 017 numbers for the time being as DiGi and Maxis haven't implemented support for CDMA, even though they have already signed MOUs with TM (can only begrudgingly give token support to competitor, ma!). Word has it that Maxis will implement CDMA support in September 2006 ~ Watch this space!
2) You have to pay RM10 stamp duty upfront.
3) You have to sign up for a one-year contract, minimum.
4) You no longer can get a Nokia CDMA phone. This is because their contract wasn't renewed as TM wants Nokia to focus on Celcom. Tough shit, I know.
Anyway, if you have a look at the CDMA call rates, you will realise CDMA will kill all existing mobile phone service providers with their really, really cheap rates (same as your existing landline, ma!).
Copyright 2003-2006 Azlan Adnan Legal Notice
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