Eight Telecom discussion thread

[xiaofan]

I'm at Yishun with great signal as well but speed is at crawling speed, was trying to load emails but not able to do so until I switch to my Singtel line.

Yes that happens to me as well with eight 4G. Sometimes even loading HWZ forum can be an issue. It will become even more obvious if I need to attach photos in Gmail.

Anyway, eight 4G is my backup line to complement my main Singtel S$15.28 per month SIM Only line, and it is good for roaming. I will keep the eight 4G line at least for the next 21 months (S$88 one for one top up offer in Dec 2025).

 

[amazingone]

Yes that happens to me as well with eight 4G. Sometimes even loading HWZ forum can be an issue. It will become even more obvious if I need to attach photos in Gmail.

Anyway, eight 4G is my backup line to complement my main Singtel S$15.28 per month SIM Only line, and it is good for roaming. I will keep the eight 4G line at least for the next 21 months (S$88 one for one top up offer in Dec 2025).

I have the same strategy as yours too, my main line is Singtel 15.28 and the Eight 4G 8 plan is my spare line mainly used for roaming.

 

[JAYSCS]

wow. That is an impressive 3G speeds. Still far from their name eight mbps

Correction, that is considered average 3G speed only, impressive 3G speed should be 8-10mbps.

 

[hereiam7788]

I hope more people will port out soon.

i need to stay for at least 5.5 years with eight.

 

[JAYSCS]

i need to stay for at least 5.5 years with eight.

Isn't it wonderful that you are not incurring any more expenditure on your mobile line for the next 5 years?

 

[Jurong640]

i need to stay for at least 5.5 years with eight.

Good luck and hope eight will improve your experience soon

 

[gapboy]

Isn't it wonderful that you are not incurring any more expenditure on your mobile line for the next 5 years?

if the company still exist .. never put all your money in 1 boat


ignore this..

 

[hereiam7788]

Good luck and hope eight will improve your experience soon

haha. i am fine with it.

 

[Kizlet]

Did they recently change the APAC Roaming? I recall using Japan roaming previously with $8 plan but it seems to be entitled to only $18 plan now.

 

[sibeiTrolled]

I recall using Japan roaming previously with $8 plan

There was no Japan in APAC previously. Only added recently

2024 roaming list - archive.org isn't loading well for me so i can only dig this up
https://www.eight.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/eight-Roaming-Destinations.pdf

If you were about to roam in Japan, you probably used the 2GB international roaming data

 

[JAYSCS]

if the company still exist .. never put all your money in 1 boat


ignore this..

Highly likely to be around, Eight Mobile is directly under Starhub and even if it decides to shut it down, the existing users will probably migrates to its other subsidiary replacing with similar price plan. Same case for Giga.

 

[xiaofan]

Highly likely to be around, Eight Mobile is directly under Starhub and even if it decides to shut it down, the existing users will probably migrates to its other subsidiary replacing with similar price plan. Same case for Giga.

That is what happened to SingTel heya where the users are migrating to SingTel hi! 4G postpaid plans. Wallet balance will be reserved.

Geenet and Changi Mobile customers can migrate to M1 Maxx. This is probably not guaranteed for MVNOs not belong to SingTel/StarHub/M1. For example, no automatic migration for ZΩH Mobile and Gorilla Mobile customers. But at least the users have the options to port out before the final closedown.

StarHub Happy Prepaid migration to the new StarHub Prepaid plan is a bit problematic though.
1) Only the balance value is preserved but not bonus data, bonus minutes and bonus values.
2) The new plans are classified as Postpaid as per IMDA classification. Some users may prefer to keep as prepaid and port out to SingTel/M1 Prepaid. The users can request StarHub to tag the plan as prepaid to facilitate the port out in this case, as per the report in this forum.

 

[xiaofan]

The problem with putting too much money in the wallet is that the balance will be forfeited when you port out. So you are kind of stuck with the provider.

Less a problem with eight as you can upgrade to 5G S$14.8 plan when needed which may perform better than the lower cost S$8 4G plan.

More problem with SIMBA if the network is not good for your local usage.

 

[loganrunning]

The problem with putting too much money in the wallet is that the balance will be forfeited when you port out. So you are kind of stuck with the provider.

Less a problem with eight as you can upgrade to 5G S$14.8 plan when needed which may perform better than the lower cost S$8 4G plan.

More problem with SIMBA if the network is not good for your local usage.

without touching on quality of local/roaming useage....

eight has the advantage that you can upsize/downsize plan, funded purely from the wallet. Each new plan fully benefits from previous 1-for-1 wallet topups

Simba is unable to do so. Each upsize/downsize requires additional payment for the new 30days. This way you don't get the full benefit of any previous 1-for-1 wallet topups.

this difference is why i didn't participate in the last simba update (ok, i was lazy to queue up ). currently have enough balance to be comfortable, and yet not too much to walk away from.

 

[identity_1991]

I was in AMK and my data is crawling at 20kbps to 2mbps. HWZ cannot even load. jialat

 

[OutBreak]

I was in AMK and my data is crawling at 20kbps to 2mbps. HWZ cannot even load. jialat

Eight is really getting more and more sheety.

 

[Mancunian2]

I was in AMK and my data is crawling at 20kbps to 2mbps. HWZ cannot even load. jialat

which part of amk?
yesterday I was eating dinner at blk 721 at 8 pm
very slow data, cannot even click google search pages

 

[identity_1991]

which part of amk?
yesterday I was eating dinner at blk 721 at 8 pm
very slow data, cannot even click google search pages

near amk hub

 

[yujin86]

Roaming at turkey now. Only can roam into Vodafone and the speed really jialat, ard 10 mbps for UL and DL lol, using my Malaysia number to roam on Vodafone speed is ard 50mbps DL.

 

[lotusnotes]

So if frequent to JB, one must subscribed to 8 5G plan instead to get better roaming data? ( sorry ah, i didn't really follow this thread)