Malaysia 5G Plans 2026: What the Four Telcos Publish

Malaysia 5G plans are not hard to compare. They are hard to compare honestly, because the number on the plan card and the number in the plan’s terms and conditions are often two different things, and only one of them is what you signed.

Alamak, and the names keep moving. U Mobile has renamed its entire consumer range to ULTRA and CelcomDigi rebuilt its postpaid series in February 2026. So this page does something duller than a ranking: it prints what each operator publishes about its own plans, then the sentence in that operator’s own terms about what happens when the data runs out.

Quick Answer: on 22 September 2026 the four ranges are Maxis Postpaid 89 to 199 plus Share 48, CelcomDigi Postpaid 5G 60 SE to 190, U Mobile ULTRA Postpaid 45 to Global 98 plus ULTRA Family 128, and Unifi UNI5G Postpaid 39 to 99 plus three family tiers. Three publish their fees on the plan page; U Mobile publishes them only in its terms. And all four have a limit, even the ones whose pages say they do not.

• The number that decides the bill: the allowance, not the price. Two plans a few ringgit apart can carry allowances an order of magnitude apart.
• The number nobody puts on the card: the speed after the allowance. CelcomDigi prints 10mbps, U Mobile prints 512kbps, Maxis prints a 300GB trigger with no speed attached, and Unifi prints no figure at all.
• The sentence to look for: the one about tax. All four say the published price excludes service tax.

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The four postpaid line-ups, as published on 22 September 2026

Everything below was read on 22 September 2026 from the operator’s own site. Where a plan page and a terms document disagree, both are shown; where a fee is published only in the terms, the table says so.

Two rows deserve a second look. Maxis Postpaid 79 sits in the Appendix of the current Maxis Postpaid terms at RM79 with 300GB and has no tile on the plan page, where RM79 instead appears as the limited-time price of Postpaid 89. Unifi Postpaid 99 reaches “unlimited” through a free upgrade printed on the card, with 100GB struck through beneath it.

What “unlimited” means in each operator’s own terms

This is the table the old version got wrong, and the only one that is hard to assemble, because none of the four puts it on the plan card. Every cell comes from the operator’s own terms for its own plans.

The pattern is worth naming. The two operators that print a number for the slow lane, CelcomDigi at 10mbps and U Mobile at 512kbps, are the two whose marketing is loudest about speed. The page most emphatic that data is uncapped belongs to the operator whose terms name a trigger and no speed. And the cheapest range of the four says there is a slow lane without saying how slow.

Maxis: an uncapped page and a 300GB line in the fine print

The Maxis plans page says its plans offer “unlimited data at uncapped speeds”. The Service Specific Terms and Conditions for those same plans, carrying a version date of 27 March 2026, say that Maxis may limit video streaming quality and browsing speed once the combined use of a principal line and its shared lines passes 300GB of 4G in a month. Both sentences are current, both are Maxis’s, and this page prints both rather than choosing between them.

The Fair Usage Policy the SSTC points at is a separate page carrying its own version stamp: 14 December 2015. It is not about quotas at all — it lists conduct that counts as non-legitimate use, and contains no speed figure and no data figure.

The rest is straightforward. Share lines cost RM48 each with 50GB, and how many you may add is set by the principal plan: one on Postpaid 109, four on 199. The page prints a RM60 bill rebate on Postpaid 89 and above, described as RM10 a month for six months, and free sooka Premium on 139 and above for sign-ups by 31 December 2026. Roaming with unlimited 5G data starts at RM29 a day, and non-Malaysians pay a RM300 deposit.

CelcomDigi: seven plans, one speed tier, and a 10mbps FUP speed

CelcomDigi rebuilt its postpaid series in 2026, and its own FAQ is candid about the transition: the new benefits do not apply automatically to anyone on an older Postpaid 5G or SE plan, and moving a principal line obliges every supplementary line to move with it. The 2026 plans opened on 5 February 2026, the Postpaid 5G 60 SE 2026 on 7 July 2026.

The interesting document is the plan terms PDF, because it contains something the plan page does not: a speed table. Four tiers are defined — Essential at 100mbps down and 25mbps up, Advance at 300mbps and 75mbps, Premium at 500mbps and 125 mbps, and Ultimate at maximum speed both ways. Every one of the seven current postpaid plans sits on Ultimate. The last column of that table is the FUP speed, and for Advance, Premium and Ultimate alike it reads 10mbps. Essential, the only tier with a hard quota and no unlimited option, has no FUP speed at all.

Everything else is on the card. Up to 15 lines may be registered against one NRIC or passport, an advance payment equal to the monthly commitment is required, and SMS and MMS are RM0.20 each, with video calls at RM0.20 a minute. The port-in rebate is RM120 on Postpaid 5G 80 and above and RM60 on the 60 SE. Roaming covers 82 countries from RM14. Charges published exclude service tax.

U Mobile: the ULTRA rename, and where the price actually lives

U Mobile’s consumer range is now called ULTRA, top to bottom. The postpaid line-up is ULTRA Postpaid 45, ULTRA Postpaid 68, ULTRA Global 98 and ULTRA Family 128, and the page’s own FAQ names that same list. There is no U Postpaid 38 and no Prepaid U40 on any current page; those names survive only in the legacy section of the terms index.

The oddity is where the price lives. The tiles carry the plan name, the data, the roaming and the priority passes, and no monthly fee. The fees are in Table A of the terms: RM45 for ULTRA Postpaid 45 with 500GB, RM68 for ULTRA Postpaid 68 with 1000GB, RM98 for ULTRA Global 98 with 1000GB, and RM128 for ULTRA Family 128. The plan number matches the ringgit figure every time, which makes the omission easy to miss; it is still the one range of the four whose price is not on the shopfront.

Two clauses are worth the click. The first is the one this page previously got wrong: on reaching the quota the speed is reduced to 512kbps, and browsing at that speed has no further limit. The second is the device restriction — phones and tablets yes, routers, MiFi units and USB dongles no, and peer-to-peer traffic switched off on postpaid entirely. Roaming is 15GB a month on ULTRA Postpaid 68 and 15GB over 60 destinations on ULTRA Global 98.

Unifi: the cheapest entry point, and a card that hides an offer

Unifi has the cheapest published postpaid entry point of the four: UNI5G Postpaid 39 at RM39 with 50GB of 5G/4G data, hotspot up to 50GB, unlimited calls, SMS at RM0.15 and no contract. Above it sit UNI5G Postpaid 69 at RM69 with 500GB and UNI5G Postpaid 99 at RM99, which the card presents as unlimited by way of a free upgrade from 100GB. Each of those cards also carries a Netflix twin: Netflix 79 is RM10 more than Postpaid 69, but on the RM99 and up tiers the Netflix name only costs a ringgit more — Netflix 100, and on the family tiers Netflix 130, Netflix 160 and Netflix 190.

There is a reading trap here worth naming, because it is how a wrong number gets into a hundred comparison articles. The UNI5G Postpaid 39 card contains a struck-through strip reading “Free Upgrade 250GB”, and that strip is marked hidden in the page’s own markup. A visitor never sees it; anything reading the page as text rather than as a rendered document will print 250GB. The visible allowance is 50GB, and the hotspot line on the same card agrees.

The Specific Terms for UNI5G Postpaid, updated 28 August 2026, are short and blunt. Peer-to-peer traffic is capped at 64kbps. A line may be suspended once usage exceeds 2000 voice minutes, and any single call is cut after a maximum of 120 minutes. Once the quota depletes you may buy an add-on — 10GB for RM10 or 50GB for RM45 — or browse at a reduced speed the document does not quantify.

Extra lines, side by side

Extra lines are where the four differ most. Maxis sells a separate cheap plan, CelcomDigi discounts a full plan, U Mobile bundles the lines into the price, and Unifi sells a flat add-on.

CelcomDigi also publishes two data-only supplementary plans that are easy to miss: Gadget SIM at RM30 with 30GB and Gadget SIM Plus at RM50 with 300GB, both needing a principal on Postpaid 5G 80 or above.

Prepaid: where the published speed figures are

The old version claimed cheaper prepaid plans are capped at 6 Mbps or 12 Mbps. Neither figure belongs to anybody. Two of the four do publish prepaid speed figures, worth knowing precisely because postpaid pages almost never carry one.

One line from U Mobile’s prepaid terms, and it is not the postpaid rule: on postpaid, peer-to-peer is switched off entirely, while on prepaid it is merely capped at 64kbps. The 5GB hotspot allowance on ULTRA Prepaid 28 stops when finished rather than slowing down.

What none of them publish, and where to complain

Three things are missing from all four sites, and it is worth saying so rather than filling the gap with a guess. None publishes a current national 5G coverage percentage on the page where it sells the plan. None publishes a measured typical speed for a named place. And none is in a position to: they share the same national 5G wholesale arrangement, which Maxis’s own terms describe as a third-party service whose availability it does not warrant.

A coverage figure was left out on purpose. The most recent national numbers reachable on the regulator’s site are older press material rather than a current statistic, and a figure that cannot be checked against a dated official page does not belong in a comparison table. Check coverage at your own address on each operator’s map instead.

If a charge is wrong, MCMC’s complaint page sets out the order: contact your service provider first; if the complaint is unresolved, go to the Communications and Multimedia Consumer Forum of Malaysia (CFM); if you are not satisfied with the solution offered, you can lodge it with MCMC. CFM and MCMC both list MCMC’s complaints portal, aduan.mcmc.gov.my, for submitting a complaint, and CFM also gives the email aduan@cfm.my and the MCMC Consumer Care Centre line, 1800-188-030. Their pages are linked below, and the steps there take precedence over this summary. Keep the bill, and note the date you read the plan page.

Walaoeh Verdict

The useful comparison is not which plan wins. It is the two numbers you actually need, and both are published: the allowance, and what happens after it. On 22 September 2026 that is a clean spread — RM39 buys 50GB from Unifi, RM45 buys 500GB from U Mobile, RM80 buys 600GB from CelcomDigi, and RM89 buys a Maxis plan called unlimited on the page and capped by discretion in the terms.

The second number is where the marketing stops matching the paperwork. CelcomDigi says 10mbps. U Mobile says 512kbps. Maxis names a 300GB trigger and leaves the speed to its discretion. Unifi says there is a slow lane and not how slow. None of that makes any of them a bad plan; it makes “unlimited” four different products. Kantoi only if you signed without reading which one you were buying.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

All read on 22 September 2026. A price an operator publishes for its own plan is treated as official; comparison sites are not used.

• Maxis — Postpaid plans and the Postpaid SSTC, version 27 March 2026: the Appendix rate table and the data clause.
• Maxis — Postpaid Share 48 SSTC, version 13 August 2026, and the Maxis Fair Usage Policy, version 14 December 2015.
• CelcomDigi — Postpaid 5G and the postpaid terms index, which links Terms & Conditions: CelcomDigi Postpaid 5G 2026: Table 1 for the plans, Table 3 for the speed tiers and the FUP speed, clause 5.7 for the Fair Usage Policy.
• CelcomDigi — Prepaid 5G, for the speed printed on each pass.
• U Mobile — ULTRA Postpaid plans and the ULTRA Postpaid terms: Table A for the fees and quotas, clause 3(b) for the reduced speed.
• U Mobile — ULTRA Family terms, and the ULTRA Prepaid data plans with its terms.
• Unifi — UNI5G Postpaid, the terms index and the Specific Terms: UNI5G Postpaid for Consumer, update 28 August 2026; for tax, the Consumer Terms and Conditions for Unifi Mobile, August 2026 (read 27 September 2026), clause 11.1.
• Unifi — UNI5G WOW Prepaid, for the 4G speed printed on each pass.
• Hotlink — hotlink.com.my, Maxis’s prepaid brand, whose footer names Maxis Broadband Sdn Bhd.
• Redress — MCMC’s Make a complaint page, for the order (service provider, then CFM, then MCMC); CFM’s New Complaint page, for the portal, email and hotline it lists; and MCMC’s public complaints system itself.