MCMC: Don't KO the Internet
January 1, Screenshots warned of further delay to full-speed Internet until the end of the month.
It looks quite fashionable, yet routine, for MCMC to issue a press statement targetting at the bosses to restrict their employees' Internet usage in the office by limiting, or disallowing totally, all kinds of "non-vital communications". MCMC says:
“Check only office mail and do not open a browser to surf the Internet unless you have to,” advised MCMC head of communications Adelina Iskandar.
Users might also want to consider cutting back on using Skype and other Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) applications. [...]
The use of chat and instant messaging applications should also be disallowed or restricted at the office, said Adelina.
Two things. Corporate entities who don't use Internet for external and intra-organisational communications, and deployment of services to the public, are as good as dead. Conversely, good companies can't function without Internet. They will lose productivity and, ultimately, customers.
Secondly, Skype, VoIP and IM apps are popular and inexpensive packet-based, interactive Internet substitutes to conventional telephone calls. Corporate work teams rely on these for official, productive work in a borderless environment. SOHO and the self-employed rely on these to cut communication costs.
In short, Skype, VoIP and IM are now daily necessities, they are an integral of our digital lifestyle.
I would say MCMC is misguided with the statement, wrongly placing the cart before the ass.
By right, big corporate entities should usurp the bandwidth of their VPN, leased lines and satellite links for their businesses -- all these are mandatory redundancy backups for business continuity -- and relieve the public internet bankwidth to the general public.
Telekom Malaysia, on theory, has a total of 21Gbps Internet link to the international network. It lost some 7Gbps of bandwidth, or one-third of total capacity, as a result of the December 26 earthquake off Taiwan.
Even without that knock-out impact on APCN2 cables, which is accidental by nature, 2006 has been a bad year for broadband (Read Lee Wei Lian & Karamjit Singh in NetValue2.0).
That's the beef, please tell Halim Shafie.
Better still, get him to listen to the tech podcast on SuiteTalker.com. Our latest upload is on bad broadband and why.
Comments
As a writer for a game and hardware magazine, I frequently use the net to cross-reference game and product details and specs, some of which are usually only available online on the manufacturers' sites. High-res game and product images are also usually only available online. Not to mention the latest drivers and patches required for testing games/hardware are available online.
I can't tell you how frustrating it is to check manufacturers sites when the net is crawling at a tortoise pace. Just last month, it took almost forever (nearly 3 hours+) for my colleague just to download some high-res images from the manufacturer's site, only to have the damn thing time out on him.
We also use MSN Messenger to communicate with our clients online and office mates. Sometimes we need to review a game or hardware online component. For e.g. I had to test the PS3's online features for a recent Wii vs PS3 feature article. And this month I've to review a Skype phone.
And the MCMC wants me to restrict my Internet usage? I might as well be out of work then.
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January 3, 2007 12:39 PM
Jeff, probably next they would say - don't visit suitetalker.com
Singapore is light years ahead of us. Still we want keep on to the monopoly, skim cepat kaya, rent-seekers concept?
A lot of productivity is lost and opportunity cost has risen due to the lame-duck performance we're getting.
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January 3, 2007 02:16 PM
MCMC is clueless as usual.
Without Instant Messenger, technical support over phone is costly, time consuming and more errors.
While VoIP like skype ensure high quality voice support without the burning the corporate pocket a hole. If using Telekom Malaysia land line, a 2 hours inter-state support call will be more costly than the engineer drive to the site.
For the download part, besides P2P, Operating system patches, antivirus updates,spyware updates, etc is essential to everyday works.
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January 3, 2007 02:36 PM
... i think MCMC is only refering to the government employees who spent more time chatting than doing real work....all dept. are over staffed....
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January 3, 2007 05:00 PM
LOL. agree with you, nyc.
We in the private sector are working hard to prime up the economy.
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January 3, 2007 10:21 PM
Like an Ostrich, just dug your head when you are running away from the problem.
MCMC officials are not internet savvy, they are Pak Tua, manning office table and using dual powered calculator to calculate his MS excel spreadsheets.
They use Ice-crashing hand phone without downloading MP3 ring tones.
They are not aware off our IDD calls are all down the same as internet is down after Dec 27 earthquake incident, because they did not make international calls.
Is our MCMC stands to represent the K-economy generation or they are under the golden shelter that prevents them from experiencing the mid-life crisis?
Who are they getting paid in MCMC except Mister Jeff Ooi.
What a Happy New Year big jokes.
To ALL those jokers in MCMC, Pi-rah!
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January 4, 2007 12:16 AM