Saravanan Sahadevan

Malaysian Broadband industry is currently on a smooth incline towards it’s quality of services and offers. With good incentives from the government and as well opening up doors to a healthy competition which eventually breaks down the TMNet monopoly leads to a revolution it self.  

In brief this is what is happening. Firstly 3 major companies earlier this year have been granted the WiMax spectrum license as you may know by now. These companies are Packet One(Subsidiary of Green Packet), YTL-eBusiness & Asiaspace. With the WiMax option provided, now there so much room for growth which is actually happening. Currently P1 has been operating in Kuala Lumpur and has recently gained license to operate in Penang as well. 

One of the most exciting things the federal government of Kuala Lumpur and state government of Penang have announced are free WiFi. Over at KL, the federal government have provided funds to P1 to allocate free WiFi hotspots all over KL. This free period is approximately for 2 years but it is deemed to continue on. Register now @ WirelessKL to make use of it. I was told that currently there are 160 hotspots allocated and it’s still growing. Besides KL, in Penang, the company that would be providing the free WiFi service is Redtone. 

Since our TMNet ethernet connection infrastructures are poor, the government has also signed up on a cool deal with TM on upgrading its broadband services. Which is a good thing. This benefits majority of us as our landlines are from TM and there is no other way to get connected. If you were to switch to other providers, it would be insanely pricy as there is no volume on the competitors side.

Overall Im pretty happy with the progress on broadband awareness in the country although its slow. It would slowly open up clogged minds of those who had weird thoughts about the internet in general I hope! To my estimations and based on ongoing affords, 2nd quarter of 2010 would be a good deadline to mark improvements and broadband standardization.  

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The Public are Desperate for Good Connection Speeds.

It’s been years that Malaysian commercial ISP subscribers have ben crying for a fast and steady connection. Being new in the Market as well may simply buy over subscribers from previous ISP’s. Therefore breaking the TmNet monopoly? Well, we would have to wait and see. 

No Crap on Fair Broadband Policy (not yet, hopefully)

I posted a while ago on regards of TmNet’s Broadband policy which simply sucks. Well for all P2P fans and torrent downloaders, it’s a bliss for them. You would be surprised with the number’s turning out to be huge. 

No Phone Lines Needed, Wireless Connectivity 

Wireless connectivity. That’s a relieve or headache? I’m not too sure. But everyone’s making a great hype over it. Well I guess it benefits on using it as places with no phone line connection or so but what about wireless receptions? That’s sill to be put to test. Will modem’s pick up the wireless broadcast if there are too much obstacles around? We still need a wireless router for the modems in order to work with any WiFi compliant hardware. Well I hope PCI WiMaX card slots are sold soon. I guess they do. Need to look into that soon. When that happens, then that’s pure wireless connectivity. 

Price Is The Main Contributing Factor 

If reasonable prices are provided or even if its slightly higher then Streamyx, I’m pretty sure people would hop over to P1. But this is what we need to wait for. According to a press statement, P1 has acknowledge to announce the packages prices on August the 19th. That’s not too far long. Hope for a good start price. I’m not surprised if the starting prices are high. 

Social Media Marketing  

I’m not making it up! There are tons of people like me, who have already been talking a lot about P1 even though its not commercialized yet. The people’s recommendations, well that’s the superior of marketing. Word of Mouth at its best. At least I hope that P1 would listen to tweets. 

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