Five Prepaid Plans Between RM25 and RM35: Only Two Make Sense

Yesterday I sat down and compared prepaid plans. Not because I want to switch — because I noticed something: people buy data like they buy rice, while cooking for one.

If you have home WiFi, fibre or Yes 5G wireless broadband, mobile data is no longer your main pipe. It is a backup. And a backup does not need 300GB.

Most people use 30–50GB a month

That is the number I see on my own phone and on the phones of people who ask me to set theirs up. Not a guess — a pattern. The phone spends data on video, maps and scrolling. At home, WiFi takes over. What is left is commuting, working out of the house, and the times WiFi dies.

If your number sits in that range, an RM25–RM35 plan is enough. Anything bigger only calms your mind, it does not add usage.

Five plans, one table

Plan	Price	Data	Hotspot	Calls
redONE ONE25	RM25	150GB (180GB if you port in)	Shared from main quota	Unlimited
HotlinkMU	RM28	Unlimited at 24Mbps, 60GB	60GB	Unlimited
CelcomDigi 5G Hyper 30	RM30	50GB	Included	Unlimited
U Mobile ULTRA Prepaid 28	RM28	50GB	5GB	Unlimited
Eastel EZ35	RM35	300GB (200GB internet + 100GB hotspot)	100GB	Unlimited

All 30 days. Prices taken from each telco’s official site on 1 November 2026.

redONE ONE25: the easiest one to defend

RM25 for 150GB, unlimited calls, and hotspot counted from the same quota — not a small separate bucket.

redONE is an MVNO riding CelcomDigi’s network. If you already know CelcomDigi works at your home and office, you know what you are getting. Port in and the quota becomes 180GB at the same price.

What I do not like: the hotspot is shared, so heavy tethering eats your phone data too. But that is more honest than giving you 5GB of hotspot and calling it unlimited.

HotlinkMU: the feel of unlimited, at 24Mbps

Hotlink sells something different. Not a big quota, but a fixed speed and the feeling of not having to think: unlimited data at 24Mbps, 60GB hotspot, unlimited calls, RM28 a month.

24Mbps is enough for 1080p YouTube and video calls. It is not enough to feel like fibre. If you open twenty tabs and download big files, you will feel the difference.

One thing about the price. In the app the plan shows RM28 with an “RM3 OFF” tag that drops it to RM25. At checkout the voucher was not applied — the total still read RM28. So I write RM28 as the base price, not RM25.

The risk with this kind of plan is simple: you never know when it gets pulled. Hotlink has restructured prepaid several times, and the “unlimited” plan is always the first to go.

CelcomDigi Hyper 30: the main line, not an MVNO

RM30 for 50GB. Per gigabyte, this is the most expensive plan in the list. But you get CelcomDigi’s own line, official support, and an app that works.

U Mobile ULTRA Prepaid 28: fast, but a small hotspot

RM28, 50GB, unlimited speed, and only 5GB of hotspot. For the phone alone this is a good plan — U Mobile is genuinely fast in the city. For tethering, 5GB is gone in two days.

Eastel EZ35: 300GB for people who actually eat data

RM35 for 300GB — 200GB internet and 100GB hotspot — unlimited calls, and unused data carries over to the next month. Their card also prints an FUP of 1000GB, far above the 300GB quota, so it is irrelevant for normal use.

It is a good plan, but not for “most people”. If you use 40GB a month, you pay RM10 more for 260GB you never touch. Unused data is not an investment.

Why 300GB means nothing

Big plans are sold on one promise: stop thinking. But you still think — you think about whether you should move to a cheaper plan every month. The money leaving your account stays the same.

One thing I want to correct, because a lot of people get it wrong: the FUP is not a hidden cap that eats into a quota the telco already promised. If the telco prints 300GB, you get 300GB at full speed. Once the quota is gone, then it slows down or stops — depending on the plan.

And “stops” rarely means stops. Most quota plans do not cut your data — they drop you to basic internet. redONE prints it plainly in their table: Basic Internet 512Kbps. So after 150GB, WhatsApp and maps still work; 1080p YouTube does not. That is not a punishment, it is how the telco keeps you reachable.

The FUP is a different story. It is the mechanism for plans sold as “unlimited” without saying how much. That is where the telco hides the real limit in the terms: HotlinkMU sells “unlimited” at 24Mbps, and 60GB is the number printed on the plan card. U Mobile writes in their terms that all plans are subject to their FUP, even when the card states a quota.

So a plan with a stated quota is more honest than an “unlimited” one. You know what you are paying for. The only question left: do you actually use 300GB?

If I had to pick

For most people with home WiFi: redONE ONE25. RM25, 150GB, full hotspot from the main quota, CelcomDigi network. No drama. I have written before about redONE and VoWiFi on the Honor X9d — their support answers questions like a real support team.

If you hate thinking about gigabytes and can live with 24Mbps: HotlinkMU. RM28, 60GB hotspot, and you stop opening the app to check your balance.

Both make sense. The rest only make sense if you are genuinely in a different category — heavy tethering (Eastel), wanting the main line (CelcomDigi), or living where U Mobile is strongest.

One warning

Prepaid prices move with promotions. Every number above comes from the official sites on 1 November 2026, and the screenshots are in this post so you can compare them with what you see in the app later. If the price has changed, trust the app, not my blog.