SIMBA Telecom discussion thread

[CPTMiller]

IMHO.
For me, Zym 4G same price at $10, much faster than Simba 4G and 5G most of time. No brainer.

At my location ( Down/Up Mbps )
Zym 4G - 89.5 / 57
TPG 4G - 3.16 / 2.75
Simba 5G - 29.7 / 10.5

I thought your Simba 5G download can hit more then 100Mbps??
I read others post here mentioning

 

[CPTMiller]

IMHO.
Eh... I TPG user leh.
I secretly hope Simba improve my area to XXX Mbps. Cos one fella say can get, IIRC, 17x download.

You are a super user have so many telco sim card

 

[keenklee]

I was taking the NE red line the other day.
From Woodlands to Dhoby G station. Those time pass by the open air station.
I can only see 5G logo at Sembawang, Yeo CK, Ang Mk station only.

IMHO.
For those interested, I did a casual on-road 5G coverage test inside the KPE/MCE tunnel. IIRC, mostly is LTE although some spots I can get 5G NSA.

P.S. I only reported for TPG.

 

[keenklee]

I thought your Simba 5G download can hit more then 100Mbps??
I read others post here mentioning

IMHO.
Cannot hit for me.

 

[kelvinti]

Zym should take over Simba, and call themselves Zymba...

If takeover failed. Then becomes Zibai...

 

[keenklee]

If takeover failed. Then become Ziba...

IMHO.
Eh... i dunno which emoticon to give u leh ....

 

[Cyborg]

Zym should take over Simba, and call themselves Zymba...

Reminds me of Zumba dance.

 

[Jurong640]

Zym should take over Simba, and call themselves Zymba...

Zym Kym?

 

[sky1978]

IMHO.
Eh... I TPG user leh.
I secretly hope Simba improve my area to XXX Mbps. Cos one fella say can get, IIRC, 17x download.

Get them to install mmwave in your area, maybe you can hit xxxx Mbps.

 

[alex22]

My china umidigi handphone can 5g on simba n m1.

But simba the latency on 5g full bar still high

 

[sky1978]

Nowadays there are many others offering 100GB $10 too.
How can we don't compare and complain.
Please Don't live in the past forever

Actually, in a way, it is the people living in the past that keep the market flooded with 100GB at $10.

All the 3 Telcos do not want to launch such plans directly, so they just rely on MVNO to compete with Simba. Once Simba is gone, all these prices will most likely be a past also.

The same goes for our electricity, at a time when there a plenty of 3rd party retailers, the prices all get pushed to very low. Nowadays, even when the wholesale electricity prices hover at around 15c, all the asset-owning Genco still charging us high prices cos there is no competition.

 

[sky1978]

My china umidigi handphone can 5g on simba n m1.

But simba the latency on 5g full bar still high

What 5G bands are you getting? Simba seems to be rolling n1 SA band which is of limited bandwidth. Many pple on China ROM without n40 band seem to be able to detect Simba 5G, so it seems that they are deploying n1 SA at more places nowadays, but the speed won't be great. n40 NSA band probably perform better.

 

[Ctrl_Alt_Del]

In fact, SIMBA speed is not the bad if you are in its good coverage area be it 4G or 5G for local usages.

However, in term of the value at $10. One can get a much faster speed and much better coverage using other MVNOs as far as local usages are concerned.

Let's talk about the roaming data bundle.

Afterall, most of us spend 99% of our time in Singapore except the miniroty whom travel very frequently worldwide!

Got people in other thread said other mvno with similar $10 plan will throttle bandwidth until single digit too during peak hours?

 

[Ctrl_Alt_Del]

What 5G bands are you getting? Simba seems to be rolling n1 SA band which is of limited bandwidth. Many pple on China ROM without n40 band seem to be able to detect Simba 5G, so it seems that they are deploying n1 SA at more places nowadays, but the speed won't be great. n40 NSA band probably perform better.

My phone without support for b40 5g connected at b8 nsa.

 

[wira]

anyone encountered this issue ?
i just signed up for a plan and opted for eSim to port in my starhub line.

got email immediately to register esim. was quite impressed. but the good experience stops here.

1. internet speeds very slow. i am only getting 0.14 Mbps
2. unable to make voice calls although i have gone to settings --> cellular --> voice & data -> LTE and enable VoLTE. but keep getting message "sorry call is restricted"

is there any settings i need to do ?

 

[keenklee]

Get them to install mmwave in your area, maybe you can hit xxxx Mbps.

IMHO.
They just need to allocate more bandwidth. Singtel's network 5G NSA can XXXX already.

 

[sky1978]

IMHO.
They just need to allocate more bandwidth. Singtel's network 5G NSA can XXXX already.

If their bandwidth limitation is from their base stations/towers into the fibre optic network onwards, they can definitely lease more capacity from Netlink. But their main bottleneck may be coming from the 5G n1 band. There is an article here commenting that n1 only has 10mhz vs the 100mhz n78 band allocated to all the other 3 telcos. So even if they NSA with n1 (5G) and n40 (4G), their speed also won't be great. The article actually mentioned their theoretical max speed won't be more than 250Mbps. Singtel 5G NSA is paired with n78 which is already 10 times bigger than the n1 allocated to Simba. It is unlikely that Simba can compete with the rest on 5G speed unless the 3G bandwidth gets repurposed next year after IDA ends 3G services and Simba gets more airwave bandwidth.

https://en.ocworkbench.com/simba-5g-nsa-trial-signal-detected-in-airwaves-at-serangoon/

 

[sky1978]

My phone without support for b40 5g connected at b8 nsa.

So, it seems that they using every available 4G band for NSA 5G.

How is the speed when pairing with b8? Cos b8 band only has 900mhz vs the b40 2300mhz with 40mhz bandwidth which double that of b8.

 

[MGeaR356]

anyone encountered this issue ?
i just signed up for a plan and opted for eSim to port in my starhub line.

got email immediately to register esim. was quite impressed. but the good experience stops here.

1. internet speeds very slow. i am only getting 0.14 Mbps
2. unable to make voice calls although i have gone to settings --> cellular --> voice & data -> LTE and enable VoLTE. but keep getting message "sorry call is restricted"

is there any settings i need to do ?

My fren Kanna such speeds when your starhub is still pending porting. Once ported in, speeds should be decent

 

[keenklee]

If their bandwidth limitation is from their base stations/towers into the fibre optic network onwards, they can definitely lease more capacity from Netlink. But their main bottleneck may be coming from the 5G n1 band. There is an article here commenting that n1 only has 10mhz vs the 100mhz n78 band allocated to all the other 3 telcos. So even if they NSA with n1 (5G) and n40 (4G), their speed also won't be great. The article actually mentioned their theoretical max speed won't be more than 250Mbps. Singtel 5G NSA is paired with n78 which is already 10 times bigger than the n1 allocated to Simba. It is unlikely that Simba can compete with the rest on 5G speed unless the 3G bandwidth gets repurposed next year after IDA ends 3G services and Simba gets more airwave bandwidth.

https://en.ocworkbench.com/simba-5g-nsa-trial-signal-detected-in-airwaves-at-serangoon/

IMHO.
So what do you think would a reasonable speed to get ?