Wednesday 25 October 2023

CelcomDigi now offers 5G Home WiFi with “unlimited” 5G data for RM99/month without contract

Story by Alexander Wong •

CelcomDigi has introduced a new option for its 5G Home WiFi where you can get “unlimited” 5G and 4G data for your home for only RM99/month. This new plan-only option is RM50/month cheaper than its plan + router bundle. If you need high-speed broadband for your home and are residing outside a fibre coverage area, this could be a viable alternative.

CelcomDigi now offers 5G Home WiFi with “unlimited” 5G data for RM99/month without contract© Provided by Soya Cincau

To recap, CelcomDigi currently has a 5G Home WiFi (Plan + Router) plan which is going for RM199/month but they are offering it at a promo price of RM149. This plan offers unlimited 5G and 4G data and it comes bundled with a dual-band 4G/5G wireless router which creates a WiFi connection for your home. According to CelcomDigi, you can connect up to 30 devices to this WiFi 6 5G wireless router. This RM149/month option is tied to a 24-month contract.

CelcomDigi now offers 5G Home WiFi with “unlimited” 5G data for RM99/month without contract© Provided by Soya Cincau

If you have your own 5G router or prefer to buy one on your own, the new 5G home WiFi plan-only option costs RM139/month but it is now going for RM99/month as part of its introductory promo. You also get “unlimited” 5G and 4G data and there’s no contract since there’s no bundled router.

Unlike the plan+router plan option, you won’t need to pay a RM480 upfront payment if you’re going for the RM99/month plan-only option. Take note that the “unlimited” plan has a Fair Usage Policy of 1000GB per month. Once you’ve hit your limit, your speeds will be throttled down to 512kbps until the next billing cycle.

CelcomDigi offers extra add-on data packages such as 50GB quota for RM10 which is valid for 24 hours, as well as monthly options of 20GB for RM40 and 40GB for RM70.

If you’re interested, you can sign up at Celcom and Digi stores, or via their shop.celcom.my/home. You can also learn more on their website and FAQ.

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Sunday 22 October 2023

Source : Internet

Russia tries to impose switch to Linux from Windows

The move is meant to insulate the country from being cut off by Microsoft.

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Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and US and EU sanctions, western companies began a steady withdrawal from Russian markets. Microsoft was no exception, and in June, the company blocked Russian users from downloading the latest versions of Windows – impacting the roughly 95% of computers and laptops that currently run on Windows.

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While these changes won’t be imposed directly, the ministry states that in order to receive preferences in tax benefits, as well as government contracts, companies offering software products will be required to switch to Linux-based operating systems. To make this switch, companies would need to rebuild many of their products virtually from scratch.

Because Linux is free and customizable, it is more flexible and can run far better on older computers.

At this stage, it is far from clear how they will handle such monumental logistics – but already, leading figures in several Russian software companies have weighed in. Talking to Kommersant, Aleksey Smirnov of Basalt SPO, a company specializing in software security, suggested that the requirement should be introduced in stages for different classes of software.

Under Smirnov’s proposal, easier-to-switch software products could be pressured to switch over almost immediately, while more complex systems, such as data protection and office management databases, could be introduced in Linux after around 2 years.

The benefits: The potential advantages of this plan have been highlighted by some in the Russian software industry. First and foremost, Linux is free and customizable. This not only makes it more flexible, it also means that Linux can run far better on older computers, without the need for costly hardware upgrades.

The switch may be a fundamentally important step towards a “full-fledged domestic IT ecosystem” in Russia.
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Mikhail Lebedev, at the office software developer Almi Partner, argued that the switch wouldn’t require particularly heavy investments or development times. His prediction is that around 10% of software products would require a full rebuild.

For Natalya Selina at the Linux-based Astra operating system, the switch may be a fundamentally important step towards what she calls a “full-fledged domestic IT ecosystem” in Russia.

Yet despite such optimistic predictions, the changes proposed by the Ministry of Digital Development will inevitably face numerous challenges – making their success a far from certain outcome.

The roadblocks: Perhaps the most pressing issue with the plan is that the number of Russian software developers specialized in Linux-based operating systems number just a fraction of those who have only ever worked with Windows. This is a particularly daunting prospect for developers whose products will need to be built entirely from scratch.

Some of the systems that will require complete rebuilds are foundational to Russia’s economy.
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Dmitry Komissarov at New Cloud Technologies, which develops an alternative to Microsoft Office, admitted to Kommersant that the feat of rebuilding his company’s products on Linux-based operating systems would be comparable in time and investment to the efforts of the developers who built Microsoft’s original Office suite.

Rustam Rustamov at the Red Soft operating system added that some of the systems that will require complete rebuilds are foundational to Russia’s economy. These include banking systems, which have now been written for Windows for decades.

This ultimately means that even tighter restrictions may not be enough to encourage software developers to make the switch, and will do little to boost the resilience of Russia’s faltering tech economy.

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