QUOTE(mengsuan @ Mar 25 2014, 09:06 PM)
If any state fail, we all fail as a nation. If purchasing power is high, Ipoh will have to prove a higher GDP than Penang.
Anyway, please stay within discussion. Your pride is deviating the topic.
No, purchasing power has little to do with real GDP figures if includes illicit foreign funds pumping into a city's property sector.
There are better ways to determine a city's performance through access to real natural resources, happiness index and suicide rates.
I hope you do not push aside the real reason why Penang's broadband infrastructure has been getting setback and pushed behind other state capitals not only Ipoh, but even Malacca, Seremban and even other towns in Kedah such as SP and Alor Setar.
The actual reason as mentioned in my previous post is due to PDC Telco a state run public infrastructure company owned by Jeff Ooi and his cronies which
forces all ISPs to lease the island wide fibre ring network backbone even if they can afford to lay their own fibre network across the island.
They tried to imitate Singapore's NGNBN model but it's a proven failure which is in fact a monopoly.
Think of it this way, other telcos such as TM and ABNxcess wants to lay their own fibre network on their own to save on cost in the long run but they are can't and this PDC telco does not allow them to do it except to lease from their monopolized fibre ring nodes.
In other states they have full control over their packages profit margins, while in Penang they always have to include having to put aside the wholesale leasing fee to PDC Telco. How can they be competitive?
ISPs prefer to build their own networks(if they can afford it) because they can have better price control over others.
In fact, it has its own advantages because if everyone shares a single network when one goes down it takes along the rest of the ISPs operating with it.
The Singapore's NGNBN has its own issues too. No doubt it prevents wastage of cable laying and allows a unified cleaner public infrastructure, users have always been complaining and blaming the sole wholesale passive network provider, OpCo for messing up their lines. None of the service providers can touch the passive network infra that connects the city except them.
The other more efficient model is Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand open cable laying model on public infrastructures such as utility poles. Almost any ISPs can make use of these public utility poles to pull their cables.
They may look like a mess and webs of wires run throughout their cities, competition allows them to throw prices around with so many companies to choose.
Whenever you allow a single company to own every rights to a public infrastructure, eventually it'll end up becoming a monopoly and the company will get over arrogant due to its full exclusive rights.
Eventually it becomes a "
take it or leave it attitude".