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http://www.it-sideways.com/2007/12/qucomhaps-malaysia-communication.html

There is another player called Qucomhaps who is coming into the Malaysia telecommunication arena.

Any experts please go in to comment there please.

May be increasing use of blogs by political parties in Malaysia will increase demand for broadband service including people in small towns. This may put pressure to existing ISPs to improve quality of service in term of reliability and speed. Some of these blogs are hosted by Google in USA. So ISPs cannot ignore quality of service for international traffic.

When Malaysia government allows foreign players? I think only when local players want and are confident to compete regionally and internationally.

"Another new thinking is that the new broadband network does not aim to open up just the Internet speed. It promises to open up access and breakdown monopolies."

Here, the ruling idiot do exactly the opposite here. Monopolies is dadah to them.

Govt is going to pump in RM1.4bil
thru TM to provide fast internet access .
Fiber to the home is chosen as
broadband platform.Pilot project will be in place very soon

A more better reason to allow foreign players into the market. After all, Malaysian broadband is one monopoly, namely TMNET and all its beneficiaries.

At least, when one has more competitors, each vying for the end user/consumers attention with differentiated services and offerings then broadband penetration would be higher and not just isolated to the urban population.

In more technical terms, the Spore govt decides to break the project into two levels: one for the so-called NetCo which will build the dark fibre infrastructure, and one for the so-called OpCo will operate the network. Many ISPs (or RSPs in this project context) are allowed to run the business on top of this infrastructure, ensuring customer choice.

From my early involvement in the initiative, most commendable part to the credit of Spore govt is the planning and measures putting in place to ensure that real business ideas and applications (hopefully killer apps) will happen and leverage this next-generation infrastructure. A whole team of biz development people are employed under IDA going around identifying and supporting such biz ideas, with even seed funds made available. It is to minimise any chance of creating a white elephant, of which Malaysia has already one too many. In other words, don't just focus on infrastructure, but sustainability and maintenance.

Come on Jeff.
Why do you have to potong steam my relatively mild afternoon like that... especially after a hectic wednesday morning.

"Two consortia led by foreign-owned players, namely Canada-based Axia NetMedia and Hong Kong's City Telecom, will bid for the rights to build a new ultra-fast national broadband network in a progressive country...."

Finally i thought!

aww... then the next you say is thats its not malaysia.

first thing that comes to mind... why does singapore get all the good stuff. i thought having 50x our broadband speed would be good enough. but no. they had to be better.

even my mum is complaining that streamyx is too slow to even stream her christian music from itunes. and to log in to her work VPN in singapore. don't even think about lah.

YB Jeff.... i implore you to urgently take this issue into parliament and knock down the doors of MCMC.

All the time and resources in the world going into MSC won't be of much use if we can't even have a strong broadband access and penetration.

Hi Jeff,
There is only a single brand of high speed broadband in the market at the moment.It is really nice to know that there will be other new supplier as Streamyx (the one and only) have a lot of problem with their connection.

Just an example, if any earthquake it the cable under the sea... Malaysia is always the last to resume its network. Not like Singapore and other asia country that can resume its network to minimise the effect.

Once a company is monopolising the market , normally their service or maintanience of the product will not be so well taken care of.

Hope for the best for Penang future.

I don't think this would fit into Malaysia. We have so much fibre in the ground currently unutilised. We are missing the 'last mile'. And unless someone wants to pump in the required money to put up the last mile we would still be in the same position.