Strongly agreed. We earn RM1k here, they earn equivalent $1k on the other side.

RM100 here for a DVD is 10% of our salary.
$40 there for a DVD is merely 4% of their salary.

That explains why everything in SG seems "much cheaper". All boils down to currency value and cost of living, just like prasys said.

well, we can't just do direct conversion of the rate, and compare the prices... alot of factors are being taken into consideration, esp the cost of living, and salary range, etc.

If you must compare, let me do it for you. Lets compare apple to apple. In SG, singtel equivalent is their MIO Home 10Mbps which includes ADSL Line, free call to all fixed home line and IPTV equivalent and it cost $57 all inclusive per month. That's like RM135 here?

Unifi 10Mbps cost RM199.  Is that really much of a difference? Not to mention, how long has 10Mbps be around in SG now? Forever? and how old is our HSBB? 1 week old? 2 at most?
You expect a new service which is even faster than our old ADSL and yet cheaper? What are they going to do with the existing service ADSL then? phase it out immediately?

Do not agree

What tmnet is doing now is basically saying. Ok, you paid RM100 for this cake. However, you can't eat the whole cake, you can only take one bite. Even though you paid for the whole cake, because other people also paid for the whole cake, so they can also want to take a bite. Don't be greedy and selfish! Other people also want to eat the cake ok!

They charge you for a whole cake, but only give you one bite. They charge everyone for the whole cake, and give each one bite, the more people buy the whole cake, the smaller your share becomes. From a business point of view, this is amazing, because your cost remains the same, but your profits increase with each new customer. And the customers are all so gullible to accept the one bite for a price of a full cake.

If secret recipe were to do this, surely kena sue already. Yet there are people still defending tmnet.

No, they are paying for priority. So using a cake analogy, they get their cake before everyone else. Even if you were first in line and they came 2 hours later, they get the cake before you.

Doesn't mean you don't get your cake. Your cake just has lower priority. Which is the problem they are having now. They can't produce enough cakes, so they are giving one cake to many people who paid for 1 cake, instead of increasing production to give 1 cake to people who paid for it.

malaysians are used to being pampered with no cap. i was in aussie, adsl+ internode also got cap. each month 100+ aud i think. compare sg and malaysia like compare peanut to watermelon

You guys still don't understand the analogy >"<

We are paying for cakes, because they advertise it as such. We are not paying for bites. If a cake is 1mbps, then a slice is something like 256kbps or something and a bite something like 56k (which is what we get with streamyx sometimes). If they advertised that we're paying for bites and if they have extra cakes we can have it(off-peak limits), then no one would be complaining. 

However they want to market it enticingly, yet don't want to deliver on promises.

I don't know why you guys are clinging so tightly to the false advertizing argument.

Every company advertizes bombastically and overpromises anyways, my current employer won't get projects at all if they don't overpromise.

can home user apply for the unlimited business ?