You think I have a choice?! Here in Kuching the whole broadband internet market is monopolised by shitmix! Jaring/TIME have not even dared to step foot on such "foreign" land. You think i have a bloody choice here? Why not you kindly offer me RM1,500,000 a year so I can contract a submarine cable to Mediaring or Starhub? What utter BS!

And guess what, in my small apartment in the UK, there's Tiscali, TalkTalk, O2 Internet, Be UK, Three UK, Virgin Media, Bulldog, Pipex, Zen, SmallWorld and not to mention dozens of BT Ipstream/datastream/LLU-based small time vendors. The best part? I could swap my providers hassle free using MAC keys, at any damn time i please as long as my contract has ended. And because hundreds of thousands of others do the same thing, incompetent providers wither and die (like Tiscali, recently acquired by TalkTalk). Competition is stiff and customers are revered, not ridiculed. There is Ofcom to regulate the market, unlike our shell-organisation MCMC.

And its because of ignorant and easily contended people like you, who couldnt care less to push towards a more open and transparent ISP market, could tmnet continue to reign with absolute monopoly.

Just FYI, my current internet package in UK? Be Unlimited, 24 mbps for RM102/mo. Thats RM4.25 per mbps. In Kuching? a dysfunctional RM88 1mbps crapmix package. That's RM88 per mbps. You're paying 21x dollar-to-dollar basis.

Stop dreaming and start pushing for a fairer market.

This post has been edited by sennheiser: Jun 28 2009, 11:15 AM

I can't seem to understand what you're trying to get across.

But anyways, it is because of your "If you want to compare msia to developed country, don't live in msia" type of attitude that msia lags behind so many developing countries today. Do you know what's our problem? We always, and dare only to compare our country to LESS DEVELOPED countries in hopes that we will appear "better" than them. Surely, shitmix maybe better than some v.25 connection in somalia. Perhaps only by comparing us to an inferior country do we feel less inferior and more contended?

Mr. Pengiranijam, this is what experts call Inferiority Complex.

While citizens in china are busy envying the US for their technological advancement, we, on the contrary, are busy comparing ourselves to undernourished countries and feeling uber happy that we are not as bad as them. See the difference? If every single malaysian thinks the same way as you, future development here would not be possible. No one bothers! We are better than some pirate-laden somalia!

About TIME and JARING. You cannot compare their performance just by looking at round trip time alone and sustainable bandwidth only. Which destination are you comparing the RTT with? Some routes may be faster than others at certain time of the day so it may not be an "isp-thing".

Again, we in Sarawak HAVE NO CHOICE. Stop your blatant insult about choices here because i feel extremely insulted as a fellow malaysian.