Students lament cheaper mobile plans with crawling speeds


Glacial pace: A service engineer said it took him an entire night to download an engineering programme. — FAIHAN GHANI/The Star

PETALING JAYA: Students who depend on cheaper mobile data plans say slow and unstable Internet access often hampers their studies.

Affordable mobile plans usually have capped data speeds of three to six megabits per second (Mbps).

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