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Wednesday, 18 March 2009

The South Korea government had decided to invest approximately $24.6 billions USD and will have a 1gbps broadband connection in most (if not all) main cities in Korea, and promised at least 100mbps for rural area and towns by year 2012. How fast is 1gbps? Imagine a full 2 hours DVD quality movie downloaded in 15 seconds? Now you got it.

Back in Malaysia, still, our main broadband provider, TM net, which ironically means Telekom Malaysia Not Enough Technology, have their very own and proud, Streamyx broadband. Funniest of all they are still trying to promote their "combo package" with pictures of burgers and sodas, joke.


Lets see what they got. RM168 per month for a 4mb line, only in Cyber Jaya? You must be kidding me. Think that its acceptable? Think again. I've gone through some of the feedback and reviews from 4mb users. They have a maximum speed of 1.7mb-2mb download speed on speedtest.net. Less than 50% efficiency? Give me a break. Many dudes out there who are lame enough to trust TM Net and subscribed the 4mb line quickly find themselves in a disconnection frenzy and unstable speed e.g one moment you can surf the net and 30 seconds later your msn spams "The following message could not be delivered to all recipients" and your web browsers fail to connect to Google.


Why is this happening? Because they had complete monopoly in the business. Users must use their service, even it sucks, because it's better than nothing. Their main competitors, Celcom / Jaring / Maxis broadband never fail to put you on a disconnection frenzy, anytime, anywhere.

But no longer. I just found that this new provider, P1 Wimax which provides a 400kbps/1.2mbps/2.4mbps broadband connection with a price of RM40/99/199 (If not mistaken). So far friends and users thinks that P1 is a much better provider compared to Streamyx in terms of Stability - Same fast speed throughout the day. However for some areas, they are inconsistent and might have some minor problems like disconnections.

Another good addition to their stability would be worthy price. Free modem, and 15 days trial, free delivery. That means nothing to lose as you can always take the trial before you actually subscribe. A minimum of 24 months subscription is however, not good but acceptable. But we never know, what if more and more users subscribes to P1 Wimax and they do not increase their bandwidth? Goodbye fast speed.

Our neighbour, Singapore have a 8mb broadband, and 10mb in Australia. Compared to us, where most Malaysians are having 512kbps - 1mbps internet, sadly. Exactly how far behind is Malaysia, compared to even better countries like Korea and Japan? I'd say at least 20 years, to be honest. If the government are too busy with Politic-Dramas and do not want to improve our facilities, and we do not have a choice, always try to get the best.

P/S:
I know they are like 38921839128 similar articles in 12918391 random blogs,
But this is my own thoughts.
Yes I wrote the whole thing myself.
And no, I don't work for P1 Wimax