re-post from /k/ to get more serious answers:

Kalau stimix pun kene cap ? downloaders amacam ?
lol, waiting for the announcement soon.

everybody would be singing a different tune if they were tighter piracy controls and they actually started sending summonses.
Jaring already has, though far and few in between.

Why is there no boycott when Astro says you need to buy a 2nd decoder to watch 2 channels simultaneously ?
If you want >60GB shared between more than 1 user, get a 2nd account. or a higher package ? Far fetched ?

My opinion lah: Greed and fear. A knee-jerk reaction.

Well, if the united malaysian front for "I-want-to-download-more-than-60GB-of-patches-linux distros-email-youtube-a-month" (snigger) can "overturn" TM's capping decision,
I'd like to see what they can do regarding the Astro issue.

To highlight double standards. (and for what? "free" stuff - Let's follow Sweden shall we.)
I am stating it, why thank you.
No belittling done to honest users of the system. It's the free for all i must have everything mentality @ greed which I am questioning.

Understandable request. So where does the line stop ? If I have 20 people in my house and I subscribe to a 60GB package, shall I demand for a 600Gb cap ? (not you of course, but someone might come in and start )

It makes a big point. So much so if God willing there was no "free" stuff, things would be very very much different. Can't argue with legal spending and actual purchase of digital games, but I think if you have pockets deep enough for those, Internet caps are the least of your worries; i.e. RM100 for a recent 10GB game, so that's RM600 to reach the 60GB cap.

Do you know for a fact that they don't invest ? too little ? to whom ?
I'll quote ihsan's reply for this:

You're not paying for exclusive use of their Int'l backbone. You're paying for a broadband connection with the added service of Internet connectivity.
Using your same cake analogy (simplified - both you and I know it's not a fair comparison), since you want it for yourself, there are options called dedicated lease lines.
Single slice of cake - cheaper. Whole cake - much more expensive.

Submarine cable landing rights ?

http://www.tm.com.my/about-tm/media-centre...arineCable.aspx

Did Ryaz Patel do his homework I wonder ? Though to be truly neutral, I'm still searching for something from MCMC.
The key point being "should they choose to invest".


Q #2 - Take a pick from the other ISPs. Those who fell and those who are surviving. For those who are still alive and kicking, how are their business and services like ?

That's the thing. You're paying for bites. Not whole slices (or cakes). And the cakes regenerate magically @ user behaviour. So if everyone took bites within "fair usage" grounds, there's always a bite for everyone.
Some bite more, some bite less. But for some who bite all the time, now that's the problem.

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Added on March 28, 2010, 1:49 pmThat's why it's called 3-play sayang. Internet connectivity and broadband connection are not the same thing. It's just been (wrongfully) used to represent the other.

I get what both you and silverhawk are saying on the bigger cake slices and that I believe that can be achieved if there are much less cake hoarders.

This post has been edited by Eoma: Mar 28 2010, 01:49 PM

I did not say that, you are @ through assumption.
A broadband connection is a gateway to a whole slew of new services and content delivery. Delivery through the Internet is just one of those possibilities.