Dr Fadhullah Suhaimi Abdul Malek, general manager of TM Net's corporate and strategy services:
"We are not against our customers using P2P. However, it is an unfair situation which needs to be addressed, as we cannot upgrade our infrastructure (merely) for the benefit of the minority," he said. " Emphasis is mine, not the author

Malaysian ISP Throttles P2P Traffic by 90%!

First the Australian ISP Exetel, now the Malaysian ISP TM Net has decided to throttle P2P traffic as well. This time the action isn't as overt and publicized as the Exetel matter was but, apparently enough customers have noticed a difference and conversed with people "on the inside" that it lends credence to the claims.



On a Malaysian blog called Lowyat.net, a self-described "Tech Enthusiast Resource" forum board, a guy using the alias "nwk" starts the thread that first reports the TM Net throttling situation. He says that he has talked with a guy from the TM Net CEO's office who "... confirmed they are throttling all P2P traffic 24 hours everyday." So instead of the Exetel plan to "reclaim" bandwidth by throttling P2P traffic only from noon to midnight, TM Net wants to take back midnight to noon from their paying customers as well .



Why would TM Net do this? Well "nwk" explains that he was told the following:



...they are doing this because they are running out of bandwidth and also because of Lim Keng Yaek ordering them to improve their service due to a lot of people complaining to him about slow browsing speeds. He said they are aware of the situation and our speeds should return once TMnut add in more bandwidth by the end of the year. He says we have to bear with the slow speeds until TMnut acquires more bandwidth.


I like the vague "end of the year" phrase. Too bad customers still have to pay all of their monthly bills until the end of the year. Customers can't "throttle their bills" if they're having a probably with too much demand for their money. Once again a company provides half a service for the full price of that service.