Tuesday, 23rd June 2009 - 15:15CET
Melita switches data traffic to new cable, introduces new fast internet speeds
Switching works on Melita's new €10 million submarine fibre optic cable between Malta and Sicily have been completed and all data traffic has now been transferred to it, the company said.
"This is yet another milestone for Melita. It represents another building block in our strategic development programme to strengthen our network and technical infrastructure in preparation for future bandwidth hungry applications across our television, internet, fixed line telephony and mobile services," said Malcolm Briffa, Melita's Head of Marketing.
Melita also announced it is introducing new super fast internet speeds in the Maltese Islands. Speed of up to 50Mbits is being made available for the first time in Malta and Gozo and the minimum entry speed on Melita's internet platform has been upgraded from 2Mbits to 5Mbits.
"We consider this major upgrade as our second revolution in the local broadband internet market as customers are now able to experience unprecedented speeds of broadband internet, Mr Briffa said.
Melita now has packages of five,10, 20 and 50Mbits.
It is also offering new broadband internet subscribers free upgrades.
All existing customers on the M package will receive free upgrades: from 2Mbits to 5Mbits and those on super fast connections will receive a free upgrade from 30Mbits to 50Mbits.
The latest MCA market review has re-confirmed Melita as the leading broadband internet service provider in Malta and Gozo with a 52% market share and over 52,000 families and businesses connected to the network.
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In My opinion melita made a good move because the people who don't understand the internet terms well will not know that their internet will become bottlenecked when sharing files. Lets say you download a file and share it at 512Kbps, which is your full upload capacity. once that is sharing you will not even be able to download at 50mbps, let alone 2mbps. it will become very slow. I would only consider changing if either company offers at least 2mbps upload speed.
if GO want to compete with melita, i suggest either implementing SDSL instead of ADSL. or slowly changing their telephone lines to fibre optic.
After all, these people are directly talking to the end consumer. So these people must be professionals and leave a good image on the company. Its just a pity to have a company which have good products and so on, but then there "pons" dont give a good image.
Miriam Galea
It's the same thing with GO. I'm paying for 8megs per sec, but I think I'm lucky if I actually get 4 megs
These people are basically advertising a product which does not exist.
However, why do I have to visit their outlets? Can't they just make the switch and that's it?
I hope there's no "Made in Malta" catch!!
Top Countries by Download Speed
1.19.56 Mb/s Korea, Republic of
2.16.29 Mb/s Japan
3.14.23 Mb/s Aland Islands
4.12.55 Mb/s Lithuania
5.12.54 Mb/s Sweden
6.11.73 Mb/s Latvia
7.11.60 Mb/s Romania
8.10.90 Mb/s Bulgaria
9.9.92 Mb/s Netherlands
10.8.71 Mb/s Moldova, Republic of
11.8.17 Mb/s Slovakia
12.8.03 Mb/s Germany
13.7.91 Mb/s Russian Federation
14.7.72 Mb/s Switzerland
56.3.11 Mb/s Malta
Top Countries by Upload Speed
1.8.65 Mb/s Lithuania
2.7.46 Mb/s Japan
3.5.17 Mb/s Bulgaria
4.5.06 Mb/s Aland Islands
5.4.71 Mb/s Romania
6.4.66 Mb/s Latvia
7.4.49 Mb/s Russian Federation
8.4.37 Mb/s Sweden
9.4.17 Mb/s Hong Kong
10.4.17 Mb/s Slovenia
11.3.60 Mb/s Andorra
12.3.37 Mb/s Moldova, Republic of
13.3.01 Mb/s Asia/Pacific Region
14.2.98 Mb/s Netherlands
113.0.38 Mb Malta
Another important factor is the upload speed. A 100Mb DL speed is useless if the upload speed can't request the information and confirm receipt of data packets. A 20Mb connection should have a 1.5Mb up speed to make use of the 20Mb connection. So a 50Mb connection should have at least a 3.75Mb upload speed. Otherwise it's just marketing talk.
Upgrades are either given free or charged for, the article in the paper, does not say you must attend, the trade show to qualify, for what they say is an upgrade, in todays Times.
I have sent Melita an email, to this effect. No doubt i will now get a speedier reply, thank to the extra Mbits. Not holding my breath, though. Lol.
Oh and the best thing is that I will get this upgrade without having to venture to that dreadful Trade Fair !!!
To Activate the 5Mbps,you have to visit one of the Melita Outlets or else the stand at the trade fair, otherwise you will remain with the 2Mbps.
There is no catch, but those that do not visit Melita, will remain with the old internet speed!
And Lina, the offer is NOT only for July and August, dear.... its for the whole duration that you are subscribed to Melita.
After August I will have to pay for the upgrade or refuse it.
j.camilleri
Exactly; Melita is one of the poorest performing companies that I have come across when it comes to customer care and sales services. I won't go into detail but to say that their sales team is incompetent is only putting it mildly my thoughts of this company.
So "upgraded from 2Mbits to 5Mbits", has not come into effect, for me until i visit, their trade show.
For the next hype!!.
Have just received an email to this effect, but strangely enough am being asked to visit their stand at the trade fair or at one of their dealers. Where is the catch?