Unifi VS Astro B.yond IPTV

Recently Astro has been promoting its B.yond IPTV service, powered by Time Dot Com. At first I wasn't bothered much as I'm not a TV person and almost all the media that I watched came form the internet, weather it's youtube, downloaded HD movies or failblog. Today, the apartment office received a proposal letter from Astro to bring it's B.yond IPTV service to the residents. I most welcome this move as there's already a small demand for B.yond form the residents which they are being deprived of at the moment as the common satellite dish is not compatible with B.yond and upgrading it will cost the management a fortune, AND not to mention that other existing apartments who are using the upgraded service from subcontractors are not satisfied with service rendered. This B.yond IPTV service offered directly from Astro/Time which is a savior. If JMC approves it that is.

First Looks
Anyways, in a nutshell, from my point of view, Unifi and B.yond IPTV is basically the same thing, they are both apples, but marketed in a different way. Unifi sells high speed broadband (HSBB) as its main course and the IPTV, VOD, voice line as value added service. B.yond IPTV markets its IPTV first. Either way you get both the same thing weather Unifi or B.yond IPTV with an additional extra from Astro is the PVR recorder.

Installation
Installation however is quite different, and also the main point of this blogpost. Observe the installation method of Time HSBB from the image below. Do take note that I'm talking about installation of HSBB in a high rise residence (apartment/condo) I'm not sure if this encompass flats.

Article 1.5.1 states that a two core fiber optic cable will be truncated into the subscriber's unit. Compare that to Unifi which fiber optic cable ends at the MDF rizer (image below).

 Meaning to say that if you are a Unifi customer at your high rise home, you'll be sharing your fiber optic connection with other units via copper line. For a B.yond IPTV that comes with Time Dot Com HSBB customer, you get the fiber optic cable direct into your home, no sharing with your neighbors.

Think of it this way:
Astro B.yond IPTV (powered by time HSBB) = highway straight into your house.
Unifi = highway ends at residential area, shared common narrow road with neighbors

They say that sharing is caring, but not when coming to bandwidth, it's everyone for themselves.

It's clear who's the obvious winner here.

Price/Value

packages offered by B.yond IPTV
I've merged the offered HSBB packages by both providers for easier comprehension. The cheapest HSBB is offered by time which is just Rm128/month for a 3Mbps line.

But I'm not going to look into this, rather focus on TF6, which is the closest competition to Unifi's 5Mbps line. Firstly TF6 is RM1/month cheaper then Unifi VIP 5 and also 1Mbps faster. Then there's the bonus of speed boost that boost your internet speed to 10Mbps for 30 hours, which means for 30 hours your connection will be as fast as Unifi VIP10 package (as claimed by Time Dot Com). Even if we ignore the speed boost bonus, TF6 has the best value.
The other packages are priced accordingly to their offered speed.

Unfortunately I've signed up a 2 year contract with Unifi.