My house is just nearby down the end of the Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah road which most homes are under Tasek exchange but mine is at the border but connected to Pasir Puteh(PPP) exchange instead.
Weird that they are skipping Ipoh Central and Pasir Puteh exchanges which is basically Ipoh city core districts itself.

Why do they want to skip the cities CBD like Georgetown and Ipoh for other suburbs I have no idea.
Is it because they are under opposition ruling?You must not forget that these are where the money's at.

This post has been edited by iipohbee: May 23 2010, 02:21 PM

TM went the absolute wrong way by pushing for TV services over IP.(IPTV)

They could have streamlined and make things easier by delivering cable tv over a separate band and use regular PPPoE accounts for internet allowing other isps to share their data network instead of dividing portions of their services by using virtual circuits(VCs).

Look at other countries GPON implementation. Their ONUs have RF ports in addition to network and phone ports.



With that your VCs are well taken care off.Just connect to the internet like your ADSL accounts via PPPoE.
Singapore's NBN is like this.

That RF port id supposed to connect directly to your STB. It doesn't affect your internet experience at all since both services are entirely on different wavelength/bands in comparison with IPTV which shares bandwidth with your internet. TM divides the bandwidth using virtual circuits to give you guaranteed resources for IPTV.

Then again TM does not have existing cable tv infrastructure like Starhub in Singapore.

Now you know the economics behind copper..
At least with copper you still get to enjoy the same download speeds of upto 24mbps for ADSL2+ and 50mbps for VDSL2.
Almost no installation charges if you opt for self install and best of all equipments are available widely.

FTTC fiber to the cabinet still pawns FTTH anytime.
Thailand does that, Australia does that, kiasu Singapore isn't even moved when TM announced FTTH because they know their Singtel Mio copper ADSL and Starhub Cable blows our FTTH away!

That's when they get to do whatever they want with you for the next 24 months.

To recover the cost half a day site installation with pulling the fiber into your house, ONT, RG, cordless phone and IPTV STB, it's quite hard to recover the cost if they're not going to incur any charges.

Another way they could think of is as the planned 2GB per day cap for all of their users for the next 24 months..

This post has been edited by iipohbee: Jul 6 2010, 08:19 PM

Kahak tak yah nak harapkan high speed(BB)bankrupt band TM ni.

Sure bound to phail. Perak can build a more advanced fiber optic which is open to all service providers instead of relying on them to do the job.
We need the other isps to team up together to realise this.

Jaring, TNB, Time, DiGi, Umobile, Maxis, Jabatan Air Perak, Petronas can build this free open network should they want to.

We welcome all world class isps to join the team.

Pacnet, Time, Jaring, NTT Arcnet, STT Telemedia via Umobile, P1, DiGi, Maxis, AOL, So-Net(Sony Internet), M1, MSN, etc.
All are welcome to provide isp services on this open FTTH network.
For telephone fixed lines/VoIP, you can subscribe to any provider and this applies to IPTV/cable tv.ASTRO will be available on cable too.

Subscribers would be allowed to subscribed to as many isp accounts as they wish to use freely on the open network and dial as many PPPoE connections as they wish.
All subscribers will be given raw 1gbps to every premise including homes and subscribed to as many isps/cable tv/telephone servcie as they please.

I really hope to see new isps coming to our country such as AOL, MSN, NTT, So-Net, T-Online, etc.
When we have such competition, let's say you subscribe to 2 isps every month, isp A gets very slow, you can disconnect from it and try ISP 2 instead.

All these by just changing your username(different @ suffix- i.e: lolyat@isp1 or lolyat@isp2 and password.

New fiber networks have been springing up recently. H20 in UK using water pipes to run fibers, and a new method called GiG(glass over gas pipelines)
Routing fiber though gas pipes. Petroleum companies are venturing into this new field now such as TUX, Towngas Telecom HK.

You won't be building FTTH in kampungs anytime and those who live in highrise buildings still use copper to deliver Unifi utilizing VDSL2 tech.

Things to also note. Did you notice what kind of wiring is used to connect your Unifi fiber ONT to your router and also to the network card of your pc?
They are made of copper too.

Until one day fiber is pulled directly to the network card of your pc, they'll still call this fiber to the premise(FTTP)

Unifi 20mbps is nothing to shout about anyway. Copper can still do that if TM were wiser to start replacing those old phone switches with remote fiber fed phone cabinets.Instead they only went and spend most of the money building their FTTH networks only in a handful of areas.

Understand that Unifi only offers upto 20mbps speeds which is nothing to shout about. VDSL2 can do even better at 0.5km with similar upload speeds.
Yes they should start replacing all the copper wiring from nearby phone switches to fiber fed cabinets/remote DSLAMs before thinking of FTTH to speed things up.It doesn't take much to convert to FTTH from here once you build a extensive fiber network just like many countries like Australia, Thailand and even South Korea did from their humble start.

It costs way more to pull fiber straight to your door than to nearby phone boxes. With ADSL2+, getting 16mbps is not an issue within 300m radius.Heck, even at 1km you can still get 10mbps with ease.
50mbps is possible with VDSL2+, given VDSL2+ and ADSL2+ can work together with ITU standards.
There's even a never VDSL2+ tech which could bring your speeds upto 300mbps using a phantom pair between 2 pairs coupled together.

How many of you guys could get REAL 100mbps connectivity to your homes yet at this point?
That's a good reason why Singapore isn't even hurrying on their OpenNet launch.
They're aiming for a correct model for open access instead.

They are not releasing it yet and it is not going to be released anytime soon. By opting for VDSL2 for high rise buildings this hints that a 100mbps package is still years away from being released.

By the way VDSL2 is a direct P2P connection unlike GPON which splices a lead fiber upto 32DPs.Your lead fiber only allows upto 2.4GBps of bandwidth to be shared among all the splicing being done.It pretty much works like a cable modem where high fluctuations are expected to occur during congested hours.

VDSL2 is a direct connection which allows guaranteed bandwidth to the port which your phone cable is connected to.

It's all about economical feasibility. When you can bring fiber as close as 0.5km to most premises you could save considerably instead of pulling the fiber directly into buildings.You wouldn't see much difference between the 2 solutions because TM won't be offering speeds beyond 100mbps for years to come as proven by their step of choosing VDSL2 for some high rise buildings. TM is just wasting lots of money doing so and only limit the service availability to only a handful of areas while still calling it a commercial rollout. They could have saved considerably by just using remote DSLAMs fed with fiber all over the country in urban areas and major cities for the time being.When time comes where they choose to offer speeds exceeding 100mbps one day, all the need is to extend the already extensive fiber network to inside homes instead.

You mentioned copper could no where compete with pure fiber but is there a need at this moment?The speeds being offered could also be offered by copper phone wires with minor modifications to roadside phone switches. How long would other people have to wait for FTTH to arrive at other cities should they maintain at this pace of rollout?

We are already way behind even our neighboring countries where 16mbps DSL is already rollout to the mass. They even have 50mbps packages in metro areas.

You may want to know how much cost savings can VDSL2 offer compared to a FTTH setup.
It's way cheaper. No need to pull new wiring, just your plain existing copper phone wiring will do as modifications are kept within the remote DSLAM cabinet. The modems are similar priced to ADSL2+ modems which are widely available in the market.
In years to come should the need arise to upgrade beyond 100mbps or 1gbps, their fiber network should be extensive enough to justify such upgrades while cost of equipment drops over time.

At this pace their progressing too slow.To be stucked with 5mbps speeds for a few years is just too late when FTTH arrives. How do we know it's economic unfeasible? Through case studies done by AT&T, Singapore's existing market, Thailand's as well as Australia's.
They are not bringing out FTTH so soon yet they aren't worried.Not that they're uncapable of doing it with their financial means, they intend to make their rollout with extensive coverage offering really fast speeds which current copper networks aren't able to achieve. Want to launch then do a proper nationwide rollout that covers major cities.

The Unifi download speeds couldn't even touch near Singapore's Starhub's DOCSIS3.0 100mbps cable speed. So my question is do we need FTTH with only a small handful of serving areas?