Taiping? Wait another 10 years la.

Even Penang island here we need to endure another few more years in certain areas.

After they commission it in high economic impact areas then the state capitals.

Your Taiping is only considered major town.State capitals also need another 5 years or more.

Good luck with your wait.

When that happens it'll mark the end of the current government's ruling and heralds something more interesting.

Hopefullly the new government will do away with the HSBB monopoly and introduce something that considers a solution that is fairer to the people like rural areas will be served with LTE to make up for the fibre coverage while fibre coverage will not be driven by political motives.

For those who have yet to receive fibre coverage but live within key urban limits, not to fret maybe there'll be something newer and more interesting coming to your place other than those who have already been covered by the HSBB project. Don't let your hopes down.
The current government will disappoint you but the new government will not.

Like they say your enemy's enemy is your friend.

There's good proof. Internet connectivity in both Penang and Klang Valley is ahead of the rest of the country.

Both are opposition states. They have better agreement with alternative telcos and fairer policies.

This post has been edited by Ahn3hn3h: Aug 1 2012, 10:31 PM

Mind telling me why Jaring last time has a special wireless fixed line service only exclusive in Kelantan last time without line rental charges needed to pay TM until Bijan's Ministry of Finance bought over Jaring from MIMOS and the departure of their father Dr Haji Awang.
Kelantan people were surfing an all digital symmetrical 2mbps service last time when TM home subscribers were still stucked with 1mbps ADSL.

Why Jaring was big contender in Perak serving public wifi and ADSL last time until some evil dark MB seize the state's administration and had a single leased Unifi line just for his kediaman?

Of and Penang Government has this ruling, they don't allow monopoly of in building MDU occupancy by only single telco like TM in new aprtments and condos.
So this allows any ISP to supply their services to tenants afetr making an agreement with the building management.
We had fibre long even before TM offered Unifi with PenangFON. WE even had VDSL already 5 years back in Batu Feringghi beach side condos from smaller competing ISPs.

Very sure. Just use Penang as role model. We've got FTTH, ETTH, VDSL long before Unifi came.

Before you call gaming and lotteries illegal, you should know that your money handouts actually came from them.
So is it halal to receive money from haram sources?

Better potholes on the road them potholes in rakyat's pocket.

TM is targetting places with Government Depts, large company plants/warehouses/factories/sites and pro BN areas with Unifi.

So if you don't live in these areas, chances are very likely it'll not reach you even in the next 3-5 years but there's a good side to it.

Unifi is still very unstable at this moment, the downtime is still much higher compared to copper wires. While it is not interested by cable thefts and not a lightning conductor, fibre optic cabling is subceptible to rate bites, fractures and heavy storms all the time.

Expect also to pay hefty fees to contractors since the free installation does not cover proper concealment job and give only bare minimal installations. I'm talking about something close to RM500 or even thousand for those fully concealed work.

There's also a very high fluctuations in speed during peak hours observed.

It is best they only serve high impact and economic areas for rich subscribers who can only afford to pay.

If your house is nearby a government department or facility like within 1 km or so in a major city, chances are high that your nearby telephone exchange office is served with Unifi. TM is prioritizing areas where government offices, buildings and facilities.
More so if you are living in very new housing estates near them.

Do you have any idea how many TM top management staffs live in Subang Jaya. Not forgetting the other GLCs directors and government officials.

Klang Valley is an exception because of the HSBB Phase 1 priority to cover most of it.

What I earlier mentioned is true for other major cities in Malaysia such as Penang, Ipoh, Seremban, Malacca, Kuantan, Kota Bahru, Kuching and KK.

Good thing Time is fast expanding their services on Penang Island. The Penang Government is doing a good job with the 1st phase of the next generation PenangFON open fibre optic project.

The downtimes of Unifi has been higher for the past few months as you can see some have been complaining in the Unifi threads, STBs have known to seize functioning just right after warranty ends and you need to pay close to RM500 for a replacement. No more free installations and many contractors are taking advantages of their quotations.

Fibre optic is good for multi tenant buildings where cables are concealed all the way to your building and unit. Those that run on poles are still subceptible to harsh weather conditions and prone to animals nibbling on it.

EDIT:
Last I found out that there are several of the TM bosses and directors who live within Subang Jaya, Damansara Utama, TTDI and Bangsar. Could that be the reason why they have very little downtimes in those areas or their staffs job positions will be at stake?

This post has been edited by Ahn3hn3h: Jan 4 2013, 12:04 AM

For Sungai Petani, the open fiber project at Bandar Laguna Merbok is getting very good response from the residence there.

They approach TM earlier to join as one of their ISP list but TM arrogantly rejected their offer.

So far they have 92% subscription. Subscribers can choose between Celcom and Jaring.
Local network traffic is capped at 100mbps.







Due to the high interests shown by the Sungai Petani locals, TM is afraid that SP residents will wipe them out of the market in the next few years if the project continues to expand full city wide. This is the reason behind their sudden move to concentrate in Sungai Petani ahead of even the state capital, Alor Setar and many other state capitals such as Penang Island, Ipoh, Seremban and Malacca.

Upload speed is very much closer to download and consistent. Pings will also show lower than Unifi without surges during peak hours of use.

This post has been edited by Ahn3hn3h: Jan 8 2013, 07:03 PM

The consistency of download/upload speeds as well as low pings by Fiber@Home is shown to be even better of Time Fibre Broadband.

This is because they use different FTTH technologies.

Local network can be anything from your intranet access, locally hosted landing site(similar to the first page Maxis redirects you) when you use prepaid, SP Pirate FTP site, IPTV or local video stream sites hosted by the town municipal council itself.

However I don't think they are implementing all of those. Local network in their case is the physical line rental.
Like you need to rent a phone line before subscribing Streamyx or pay extra ISP charges for dialup - (Standard Line rental(circuit charges) + ISP).

The ISP price plans might have already included the rental all in 1 bill, so you don't have to pay 2 separate bills.

Now that they are launching 8M Streamyx, Phase 2 HSBB might be delayed or they are going to focus less on Unifi expansions from this year onwards.

The Phase 1 of the HSBB which ended in 2012, might not have been taken off well enough because they are so silent about it until now. There's no expansion maps released until now to any other capital cities and areas after the current Unifi service area list.

Furthermore they are now launching Streamyx 8M mainly in Unifi areas? Isn't that an overlap service which means Unifi subscriptions are not getting anywhere?

You forgot the main obvious advantage which is you truly get to choose your favourite ISP and voice/Tv services. No backbone and B-RAS sharing. The next hop after your OLT will be your ISP's own equipment and not owned by the monopoly telco that owns the whole infrastructure like the HSBB. Therefore you don't see unfair practices and prioritization given to the incumbent owner of the network as well as the same ISP operator such as Unifi.

92% sign up by local SP residents by choice can't be wrong.

Sitiawan? Where's that? Is it a city?
Many parts in the middle of Georgetown and other city centres don't have it yet.

Sorry not to disappoint anyone here but expansion of TM Unifi now is very unlikely to take place any more unless you plan to move into some new high end housing development that made a pact with TM for the private partnership program. Most of these housing developers who made the private partnership program for HSBB are selling homes which will never be afforded by the middle class or lower.

As soon as Phase 1 of the HSBB ended on December 2012, the BN government had stopped giving subsidy grants to TM therefore it is expected that fibre expansion works will slow down considerably or come to an eventual halt.

Moody's Research comments:

Source: http://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-Tele...ions--PR_267330

Those who live in cities such as Georgetown, Ipoh, Malacca, Kota Kinabalu and Kuching, I do feel sorry for you all.

So much for the slogan lies that lauds:

Tiada Terpinggir, Tiada Tertinggal

When so far 1.4 million out of 20 million plus citizens only subscribed to the HSBB project.

With the same amount of investment funds they could have used VDSL2 technology and delivered close to 5X the coverage on FTTC/FTTB technology instead of using the obsoleted GPON FTTH.

That also means close to 5X the premise passes and 5X the subscribers.

Thailand manages to pull fibre cabinets on the road without being spoonfed by their government yet the average connection speed for their lines are now 10mbps for around RM100.

I'm so sorry for this misleading statement made by myself :

It's supposed to be ~1.4M homes passed but with only 517k subscribers.
In simple terms it means only 1.4million premises are only eligible to apply for Unifi and that includes unoccupied/abandoned premises out there.

That makes it 0.517 million Unifi accounts over a population of 29 million people.

This post has been edited by Ahn3hn3h: Mar 20 2013, 04:11 PM

People who are used to being spoonfed will always want it to be that way even if one day you decided to put food on the table they'll refuse to feed themselves.

In the case of TM HSBB, the Government pump in RM2.4billion to subsidize Phase 1 of the project, that was the very reason why the project saw efficiency and the project moved along well.

Now that the Government has seize to continue subsidizing the project, TM will refuse to budge except if there are developers who are willing to commit by paying to include the network build out on their part. The motivation seemed to have vanished.

It is already starting to look like the entire project is now abandoned( "terbelangkai" ) halfway through its course.Why? No more food, so complain not enough energy to work anymore?

In the first place like what LKS has mentioned in his blog about the RM2.4billion funding was just spoiling TM with taxpayers money. Earlier there was a closed tender between 2 parties with TM suggesting the HSBB which required Government subsidy and another party which suggested the HSBT project without any subsidy help.

Despite the other party didn't even require Government help in subsidy and only required private funding/loans to facilitate their project, the Government will decided to award the HSBB project to TM.

These were the other questions which LKS threw in but they were shoved under carpet.
Here's what he asked:
Article: The RM 2.4 billion Telecom HSBB (High Speed Broadband) subsidy - LKS's Blog

Why did TM chose to ignore and skipped important key economic areas such as:
Georgetown , Ipoh, Malacca, Kuantan, & Kota Kinabalu ?

They started off well thanks to the RM2.4billion lubricant but how come Phase 2 seemed to have quiet down so much by now? Phase 1 has just ended like 3 months ago only.

We haven't reach the finish line yet, ok?

Here're more insights for the previous HSBB contract awarded by our Government MCMC Dept.

Source of article taken from Malaysia Alternative Voices.
http://malaysiavoices.blogspot.nl/2008/09/rm-11.html

There were actually 3 proposals which got to the final stage of consideration before the Government insisted on awarding the RM11.3billion HSBB project to TM and taking out RM2.4billion to subsidize the project from tax payers money.

The 3 proposals were:

1) TM with its HSBB Draft
Funding source: Private with RM2.4billion subsidy from Government. TM owns and operate the entire network and they can choose to sell wholesale services to other ISPs.

2) HSBT Draft
Funding source: Totally private with Pahang government having a 20% stake in HSBT via its wholly owned subsidiary, Pahang Technology Resources. Main source of funding would be its strategic partners, while the rest would be raised from sukuk and other forms of funding.

3) Jaring's then CEO Dr Mohamed Awang Lah Draft
Establishing a neutral infrastructure company that owns a fiber optic backbone network throughout the country that will cut the total HSBB cost by 80% savings.
This is pretty much a "FTTN" network which wire up fibre optic to streets and then ISPs can lease them for their own FTTC/FTTB cabinets, LTE wireless base stations, or last mile FTTH etc. ISPs can save on laying their own fibre optic network throughout the country only for their own sole use. This is what Time is doing to bring their FTTh netowkr to multi dwelling buildings.
Funding source:
Can be private or government funded tapping from the USP fund.

Eventually, both 2nd and 3rd suggestions were ignored and lost their bid to Option 1 from TM.

The HSBT tender lost on the basis that it was introduced late to the table but as you know, they came out with a plan which could save the government RM2.4billion. Should they be given a chance?
That's RM2.4billion couldn't it justify for just a late entry, that's plenty of money to be saved!

As for Jaring's CEO suggestion, his idea was also shoved into the bin for the basis that it couldn't gave a steady income stream for the TM monopoly. TM argued that they were the best player to own and operate the public network and they can always sell wholesale services to other ISPS.

What's stopping the 2nd proposal you say?
The upcoming GE and cronies insisting that their family members/relatives get a large portion of the main contractor award?
We have given them enough time to prove themselves but it seems the result is absolute failure with only around 500k+ Unifi accounts out of a population of 29million people?

1) If you noticed the HSBT has involvement from the Pahang Govt. and our current PM has a say in its board. But initially when he succeeded the previous PM, he faced a struggle of power among his other party members especially Dr Mamak's team.

Dr Mamak insisted that the award was to be given to TM with a large portion of the fibre supplying contract going to his son's company Opcom Holdings as main contractor. That's RM2.4billion of sugar supply.

2) The most interesting and fair deal was the 3rd one suggested by the previous Jaring CEO. His draft was to lay an extensive wholesale fibre network throughout the country by a 3rd party neutral consortium without any intervention of any ISP which owns a last mile network. That way anyone can lease the network for their last mile without having to lay the backbone infrastructure by themselves.

For example, TM which already own the copper last mile can rent it and only concentrate on building fibre cabinets for the final stretch to consumers, mobile and WIMAX operators can rent the fibre for their backhaul etc...

The whole project planned that time was to only cost RM5billion to cover most major cities in the ENTIRE country.
If the government was to pump in RM2.4billion from the USP fund instead of subsidizing TM for the HSBB, it would have covered 50% of the cost and Malaysians would have on average achieved 10mbps just like what Thailand is now doing through more proven solutions with FTTN and copper for last mile.

No one is stopping ISPs if they want to extend the last mile with fibre optics to customers premise if there is very high demand.

To claim 384kbps/1mbps/2mbps as entry level broadband makes Malaysia like a "laughing stock".
Our neighbour like Thailand already sells 10mbps lines at almost the rate of our 384kbps packages.

http://trueonline.truecorp.co.th/package/buy/238

Sadly today the good idea is mainly practiced in Penang and bro Jeff is one of the main forseeing the implementation of this open backbone network in the state. It could have also taken place in Perak if the opposition coalition still maintained control because the Jaring CEO at that time had high hopes for the state for offering itself as a pilot project that time. It all ended when the power snatch occured and everything was reversed. Shortly after that that Dr Mohamed Awang Lah resigned from Jaring and stated he wanted to go for vacation and do freelancing.Who knows if his move was politicized or pressurized by certain parties to mute him?
This is his Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Mohamed-A...Lah/32807701723

Here's some news about Penang's High Speed Broadband plans:
Source:
http://www.investpenang.gov.my/portal/comp...ng-by-2014.html