This cable tv provider is another 1Malaysia spinoff which plans to abandon ASTRO for satellite tv in favour of the new cable medium. We know who is the "real boss" behind this 1Malaysia company.



From the video, observe for yourself who are the directors involved with 1Malaysia badges they wore.
Almost of of them are my neh neh's relatives - lots of talking can get very syiok wan.

You see they only hire young girls for their sales and marketing

Those who have experience with this ABNxcess sister telco company, V Telecoms you'll know that kind of experience you get with their services. The company has very awful international bandwidth and peers with only a miserable Indonesian company.

They can offer 10mbps as the entry package, but as you know cable broadband speeds fluctuate very badly during off peak hours if oversold.If too many people are placed on the same node, you'll be lucky if you get a decent 2mbps speed out of it.

Initially when it's still new and without many subscribers, the service may still be fine but as subscriber grows, the QoS is questionable.

Deployment will concentrate on high rise apartments similar to Time Broadband because they can use the existing MATV coaxial cable within the buildings for FREE.

Just another spinoff and brand refreshing with cable TV thrown in.
If you have watched through the video, you'll know the geng of neh nehs involved in the business and their ties with 1Malaysia Co.

The price is just ridiculous in Malaysia for telco services.

RM109 in Thailand gets you 13mbps broadband with 100+ IPTV channels on a separate set-top box

This is 3BB promo offer:


While RM130 gets you 20mbps down for TRUE DOCSIS 3.0 cable internet


Full TV channel packages cost another RM35 or so.

3BB Thailand's GPON FTTH is fast expanding now throughout Bangkok Metropolitan and other major cities incd. Chiangmai.

Expect the similar upload speeds for this cable internet in Malaysia and pay 3X more for its 50mbps service.

Cable TV signals are similar to that of satellite except that they are transported over fibre to your housing area and then reconverted back into electrical signals so that they're sent over metallic coaxial cables for termination at customer's premises.

Areas which are already covered with extensive fibre cables such as Klang Valley will stand to benefit a lot from deployment times because they could always rent unlitted fibre strands from companies such as TM, Maxis or TNB for their own use.

If you're a fan of Bollywood and Banghra Music, you'll love their RM30 full tv package!

Their TV channel lineups is sure going to have a nice cult following.

Most of the areas they're deploying overlaps with Unifi HSBB coverage. It's pointless for them to gain new subscribers and waste of effort in expanding broadband reach to Malaysians.

You are an example why they'll not get new customers in areas already served with HSBB. Many are still tied to HSBB subscriptions, so they won't bother paying so many bills.

You can get the IP range used for the their internet service from one of the videos on their Youtube corporate site.

Guess what? When you do a IP lookup on it, the IP used was a leased range from TM themselves. So pretty much I have a impression that this company is actually a spinoff of TM under a different brand name.

A simple reverse traceroute from Softlayer reveals that it travels all the way through TM servers before reaching the IP?

Maybe under the same big boss running the show behind different named companies?

It seems this company only exist in the news without any real users around.

Their launch areas are mostly already served by the HSBB coverage with so much choices already available to existing users that have access to TM Unifi, Maxis Home Fibre and P1 Fibre.

Many of the users of the HSBB networks are already tied to long contracts for 2 years and TM seems to keep offer promotions to keep their subscriber contracts running nearing expiry.

They are after the wrong markets or just their to pull a PONZI.

2 years contract. It claims to be fair use policy, no ISP in Malaysia is stupid not to include that in their contract today.

With that even with the worst quality service offer they can always use the excuse of fair use policy and tell customers that their line is subjected to line sharing.

If they oversell it, they'll just tell ranting users that too bad you agreed to fair usage and that's your problem of coping with other users sharing the same line. Don't want? Just pay up your early termination fee or the remaining months.

Crony style of doing business..

This post has been edited by Ahn3hn3h: Jul 13 2013, 07:23 PM

That's the point of foolish telcos who have lousy planners.

They launch HSBB, LTE and cable TV within only a few limited areas which overlap against each other.

Maybe the cronies and VIPs just want to shower themselves with all sorts of choices but they don't know they are doing it at the expense of the public's funds.

Sooner or later all these startups sure go bankrupt!

They use mainly TNB poles which carry electric cables.

If you watch some TNB poles sometimes there is a thinner wire hanging right below the electrical wires below.
Some of this cables are then connected to a black coloured cylinder every few poles along the road. Those are fibre cables actually.

We are not even talking about outskirt areas here. Areas within Georgetown, Ipoh, Seremban, Malacca and other state capitals are certainly not low income and rural areas. Maybe they are opposition strongholds but they have real strong demand for internet usage!

Why keep feeding areas which are already spoiled with so many choices while denying other urban areas who need them?

Coming from a veteran TM staff who told me this, he said the deployment decisions are actually biased towards areas which have demographics that is of no interests to them. The local word for it is "anak-tirikan" or orphan the others using the excuse of brushing away requests as "no demand" for them to deploy their services.

However that's just half the piece of information you gave there just to moot the whole point up.

Subang Jaya, TTDI, Shah Alam all are home to many prominent VIPs, politicians and even TM directors.
If the planner didn't include them in the initial rollout list, I'm not sure if he/she gets to keep his job after that

Anyway that's not the point about using the excuse of not covering outskirts or outside city limits.

TM KOMTAR exchange was the most important exchange office in the Northern Region of the country during TS Koh's time but not anymore. In fact it was one of the 1st in the whole country to have Streamyx ADSL activated.

Since LGE moved into KOMTAR, Penang has become one of the least covered state for Unifi ever since.
Very limited areas have Unifi and most of it are found only on the mainland with Bayan Baru as exception. Mainland Juru, Prai are covered towards Kedah border and Sungai Petani.

Do a availability check on Unifi site and the results will surprise you. Not a single area around Georgetown and KOMTAR has UNIFI coverage!

Why? Is it because there is NO demand from Penang Island users? NOPE
Mainland users are richer and can afford it? NOPE
Mainland have more need for using it? NOPE

Mainland Penang and Kedah has different demographics? Sure

I don't believe there's no demand for UNIFI around KOMTAR and central Georgetown if you tell me that BS story.
My confirmation of it comes from a TM veteran staff himself and his explanation was very convincing.

How can Sungai Petani has more interest in fibre optics more than Penang Island capital itself? Are you implying that majority of the Penangnites are illiterate than Kedahans? There's so much demand coming from the tourism industry alone, and fibre internet will sell like hot cakes just to hotels there alone.

It's confirmed the HSBB rollout was actually biased towards realizing certain parties need. It was waste of public's fund.

Don't you think it's foolish to ignore the heart of Penang Island where KOMTAR is located in your planning and lose the potential of so much $$ and subscribers.

If it's not money motivated then what is? The only possible next thing is politics.

I'm surprised why some people got business also don't want to do but instead target areas where people who don't pay their bills for 5 months still get to use the internet.

Are you serious in doing business? This is clean money for you to make which I'm sure God will also approve.

Your (so called expert) friend of yours was wrong in his understanding of DOCSIS technology.

Cable internet does not share bandwidth with cable TV channels. They operate on different channels simultaneously.
To achieve faster speeds DOCSIS 3.0 uses channel bonding techniques to combine 1 or more channels.

It's like one wide highway with many lanes, each lane delivering a different channel separated by guardbands. With internet they reserve a few of them for data transfers.

The drawback is since the lanes reserved for internet is only limited, when more people starts using the same lanes simultaneously, it gets awfully slow at peak times if they oversell their lines.

TM has no obligation to do so because they enjoy almost full monopoly in Malaysian fixed line broadband internet market.

With such a small coverage for ABN, you think they'll be moved from their cozy position?

Malaysians will only know once their subscribers grow in number and their network expands. Now they're just leasing lines from TM wholesale and reselling them.

We'll have to wait and see if their cable DOCSIS network will be able to handle large number of users in future.

TM has hidden plans to lower their Unifi rates to par with the ABNxcess RM99 promotion offer should it becomes widely deployed.

ABNxcess success will spur competition for other cow ISPs to budge.

Should it not happen, then TM will be reluctant to adjust their prices due to lack of competition. They are employing a wait and see attitude.

This post has been edited by Ahn3hn3h: Sep 25 2013, 11:04 PM