Review of RedONE Singapore Amazing8 SIM Only Plan
OCWorkbench 24/5/2019
RedONE is the latest MVNO to join the Singapore telco space. To date, we have
3 MNO – Singtel, Starhub and M1
2 MNO sub brands – gomo (Singtel), giga! (Starhub)
6 MVNO – Circles.Life (M1), Zero1 (Singtel), ZeroSG (Singtel), MyRepublic (Starhub), VivoBee (Starhub), RedONE (Starhub).
Yesterday, we went to one to the agents and signed up for the amazing8 plan (Yes, you can’t sign up online). The plans details have been discussed before so I won’t repeat it here. – 2 GB data shared between Singapore and Malaysia roaming + 150 mins for outgoing calls to Malaysia (there after 10 cents/min).
Signing up is simple. Just bring your NRIC and tell the staff you want to sign up. All entries are done electronically. To my surprise, they even check your NRIC against ICA database.
During the sign up process, you have to decide on the spot the mobile number or if you wish to port in your existing numner from another telco. There is no option for you to port in later. Alternatively, if you want to try first, you can sign up another line and port over at a later stage and cancel the first line. I hope they give an option for you to port in at a later date. There is also a minimum 2 months ‘contract’. That is, if you port out or terminate the line during the 2 months period, you still have to pay 2 x $8 = S$16 to RedONE. Payment can be done using the Redone SG app thru eNETs. No credit or debit card options.
Unpacked and APN set to redone we tested the SIM basic functions and were quite delighted by the speed. See our speed test on the next page.
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Test results
Here are the results tested outside SIM LIM SQ.
Signal level is not bad too and speedtest shot above 100mbps. NetFlix speedtest gets around 20 – 30 Mbps. I think it is location dependent.
As redone billing cycle is from day 1 of the month we are allocated only 500MB . We blew the limit .
The speed throttles down to around around 100kbps as stated and it is still usable for Facebook or WhatsApp calls. (updated)
One of the plus point for this mvno is that it allows you to share the allocated 2GB data in Singapore and Malaysia (roaming). That is to say, you can data roam there without any worry of extra charges beyond 2GB as it will be throttled down to ~128kbps.
One thing I like about this plan is that 150 mins call mins can be used to call Malaysia for free. This is something new but do mind your allocated minutes. Do take note if you are roaming in Malaysia, calls back to Singapore are chargable as roaming calls.
The app can be downloaded from app store and you can immediately check the usage. It refreshes and gets updated regularly. You can also use the app to buy add on.
[nextpage title=”Roaming in Malaysia”]The beauty of this product is it’s shared data roaming (of 2 GB) in Malaysia. Even if you run out of high speed data (2 GB), roaming will still function according to the specs.
Our reader, Shawn Ng went to JB to do a field test and he experience intermittent connections.
redONE can data and voice roam on Maxis, Digi and Umobile. The default auto roam selection picked up Digi. Although it is connected, simple facebook message can’t be sent out. Speedtest doesn’t seem to work.
Manually setting it to mymaxis seems to get it working but the connection is intermittent. Below are screen shots of the signal strength and the speedtest result of 1.4 Mbps.
The speed is so slow and problematic that he decided to use his M1 prepaid to data roam instead.
I think redONE is pretty new and a lot of things are a bit fleaky. It might take a few days or weeks to get it fixed.
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