They will forever be useless

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.