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Dear Jeff,
Well, regardless of how autocratic Harry's, he's indeed a remarkable stateman. Lets not be complacent that Harry really indeed has slowed down in his speed of thought. He's far more alert than you think including ahem...... Anyway, I think he must be extremely shiock with 2008 GE. If you knew DAP's history fully, you know what I mean

Well, apparently:
[From wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deployed_WiMAX_networks
Licences have been awarded to 4 operators, Green Packet Bhd, REDtone International Bhd, YTL E-Solutions Bhd and Asiaspace Dotcom Sdn Bhd to provide WiMAX services, service rollout targeted by 2nd quarter of 2008.

In practice though, WiMAX isn't as good as it is hyped up to be:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/23/1512220

We certainly welcome more broadband
With more to come into the Internet band
Spreading as fast as the beach sand
Global communication village is well in hand

(C) Samuel Goh Kim Eng - 130408

Hi, Jeff

Can you use your good offices to raise in Parliament this whole issue about the proposed High Speed Broadband Network in Malaysia that will be implemented by Telekom Malaysia?

I note that the Spore govt has opted for a different approach where the ownership of the physical network infrastructure and the ownership of the switches will be tendered
out separately.

This is to prevent incumbent heavyweights like SingTel or StarHub from monopolising the network and making it difficult for competitors to gain access.

Whereas, here in Malaysia, it seems to be skewed in favour of Telekom Malaysia.

Why?

As a 'broadband' user in Vista Komanwel, Kuala Lumpur, download speed from US servers for the past few weeks can be below 100kbps for 384bps plan during night time, e.g. 20:00 to 01:00. So I am currently having a 'dialogue' with TIME dotNet(ISP) and MCMC on broadband service quality issues. TIME dotNet position is it is normal download speed to be slow during peak hours(even below 100kbps). And MCMC ignores my complaint emails. Any suggestion on how to resolve broadband service quality issues in Malaysia?

Dear Jeff,

what about the rest of us who are victims to Maxis Broadband? All my friends whom I told about Maxis gave frustrated sigh for being lied about the speed of Maxis broadband, worse still is that they can't terminate it because they are bound for 18months of service! I admit we should be blamed for not reading the fine print, but how and what can we do to prevent more victims from falling into this trap?

When I bought my Maxis broadband I have not terminate my Streamyx. And I had the privilege to try both at the same time. Streamyx wins hands down. Yet Maxis was touted to be 3.6mps against Streamyx 1.0mps!!!

skilgannon1066, we probably know the reason. A number of social and business issues in Malaysia require political solutions. Those Malaysians that do not have access to pipe water or electricity also wonder why broadband users in Malaysia complain so much about service quality.

Well Jeff...
I'm just wondering why in the world isn't TM worried about the sad state of its networks...

Yes, we are light years behind singapore... ( in terms of broadband speed anyways)

Oh ya.. it seems that our usual 801.11a/b/g/n adapters won't be compatible... will someone pls enlighten me..

why in the world are we moving to wimax when we can't even properly roll out decent broadband services?

This is an age-old argument, but none the less valid even so, but Singapore faces less quandaries when it comes to the division of resources between rural and urban areas.

Would it be then prudent for urban infrastructure to power forward fully while the already laggard rural ones not?

Of course, there is still the issue that the whole internet infrastructure does not have access to a potentially significant amount of capital due to the high entry requirements in terms of resources for private initiatives.

cheers