I really wonder what tycoon Ananda is trying to say.

If I was the reporter who interviewed him for that story, I would have asked him many questions that would make him look stupid for such comments !

Below should be the type of questions and comments that I would express to him...

First and foremost... remember the old days when wooden telephone poles was used to hang phone cables so... does he know how long it took for Telekom to install this infrastructure to the whole nation ? How many years did many small towns in Malaysia have to wait just to have phone service ?

After many years, does Ananda know how long it took for towns nationwide to change phone poles to underground phone cables? Even today, some small towns still use phone poles. The phone infrastructure was progressively changed by Telekom from phone poles to underground phone cables which took many many years to complete nationwide.

Where did Ananda get the actual statistics to comment that "Satellite TV is dying" ?

He should be the first person to know that installing the full infrastructure to use underground fiber cables is much much more expensive because of costs of the fiber cables, ports and routers, distributors, etc. Note: I am referring to the underground fiber cables outside our homes, internal wiring in our homes don't use fiber cables.

Each fiber cable for IPTV is limited to a number of users it can support. So the IPTV providers have to estimate how many cables to lay underground that is enough for future demand. It cost money to dig again to add more cables.

Although the full infrastructure for Satellite TV/Radio cost billions of ringgit, its coverage is immediately available nationwide... and don't depend on the population size in any towns or location areas. IPTV or Cable TV companies will have to survey first and then decide whether its commercially possible to provide underground fiber cables for small towns with small population, such as 50,000 residents in a small town. I really think these companies will NEVER install the expensive fiber cables to small kampungs (with only a few hundred people in each kampung and these kampungs are spread in a large area) ! In the case of Satellite TV, there is no such "decision" to make because its completely not necessary. Just go to any kampung home, install the Sat decoder+dish and thats it !

Even in advanced countries such as USA, NOT ALL towns, townships, suburbs in their entire vast country have Cable TV or IPTV ! I know this as a fact. All of us do know just how BIG the USA is ! Yes, I agree that IPTV and Cable TV is readily available now in many cities in US but it will never be possible to cover the entire US nationwide. This is where Satellite TV plays such an important role because its readily available to a very large area that each satellite is located in the "sky above".

So I must really criticise Ananda because I truly wonder just where he got this nonsense and absolute crap that he stupidly believe that "Satellite TV is dying". There is a chance that I could be wrong BUT if Ananda is right in front of me now, I will still challenge him to prove to me with evidence and actual statistics that support his stupid opinion that Sat TV is dying !

Of course everyone wants IPTV or Cable TV. Who doesn't ? Of course I WANT IT !!! As I have mentioned many times before, will it be possible and how long do we have to wait for IPTV or Cable TV to be available nationwide? I know no one suggested it but it will be very stupid to suggest stopping Satellite TV right now, and put the people in the whole nation in limbo who then stupidly wait for many many unknown years for something that may never come for many rakyat in smaller towns !

If anyone here feels whatever I have mentioned here is not correct, I will not be offended and don't mind if anyone corrected me, hehe.

My apologies to smileguy... for my "heated" reply here. I mean no offense to you. I am NOT pointing my sarcasms and criticisms at you but directed at Ananda for his rather careless and stupid statement. OMG !