well, TM is no saint either, all of them are cronies under BN

govt has awarded the nation's fiber infra to TM, and Maxis (sibling of Astro) has to rent the infra from TM, not to mention the border internet exchange which is monopolized by TM, so yeah, TM is making money from Maxis' customers as well

given the fact that Khazanah has significant stakes in both TM and Astro, the real beneficiary are nobody but BN cronies, especially those in EPU

the losers will always be the rakyat

from youth consumers POV however, no Astro still can survive, but no internet sure die, hence ISP is perceived as having higher priority than DTV operator, you still can stream from RTM web or various online streaming providers, Astro panicked out and partnered with Maxis to roll out Astro over IPTV.

Some unrelated side story, actually the original plan was that Maxis to roll out their own IPTV without Astro contents (or just relay a few of inhouse Astro channels), Maxis initial plan was to focus more on VOD/PPV centric IPTV with contents of their choice. However, things got changed probably when the big guys in Astro panicked and intervened Maxis' decision, they used some of their influences to prevent Maxis from competing with them in paytv business, they want to be part of the party... and the rest is history -- Maxis carrying the 3P service, with one of the P are "courtesy" from Astro.

There was at least a team based in KL Sentral were dissolved and the staffs were transferred to various other departments due to this.

This post has been edited by PhakFuhZai: May 29 2014, 11:07 PM

refer back to my side story above, actually Maxis could have been as our 2nd major IPTV provider, offering contents which isn't seen in Astro, complementing the gap in Astro, and not directly competing with them.

Unfortunately, Astro still did not want this to happen

hence, what can you expect from a company which can treat its sibling company that way?


all in all, there's only 2 years left in Astro's monopoly, and now is no longer Mahathir's era, let's see how AK can play well with Najib administration eh



sorry for appearing off topic, just that suddenly was very raged by what Astro did, and feel sympathy with TM and Maxis

more to read: some old news, darn hard to search also

http://china-screen-news.com/2012/07/maxis...d-iptv-service/
http://www.soyacincau.com/2012/06/27/maxis...v-service-soon/

This post has been edited by PhakFuhZai: May 29 2014, 11:31 PM

it's simple, I dare say, Astro's honeypot are coming from chinese subscribers, the Superpack 3 is the most expensive one, besides charging premium price for latest TVB dramas which can be seen on WLT 9-12 months later. My colleague also jokingly refer Astro as something meant for maids to watch only, which is true in some way... as chinese working class are out to work, leaving the old folks/kids/maids at home, end up the maids could be enjoying Astro while their employers work their asses off to pay the monthly fee

unfortunately that HKTV was not granted a license, hence TVB continues to dominate the cantonese market, indirectly this helps Astro in their business as well.

recently get to watch HyppTV quality at friend's home, the quality on SD really is crystal clear, quality approaching DVD9, surpassing even Astro's own in house channels

how come, even AOTG for World cup is available for streaming

RTM web admin can actually just limit the streaming available to those from Malaysian IP only

too lazy to do it huh

what are the major differences between HyppTV on Unifi and 4Mbps Streamyx, aside from picture quality?

does the IPTV eat off partial of that 4Mbps Streamyx bandwidth? because AFAIK, it's not possible to have dedicated video VLAN on Streamyx