Its started when Gobind pressure ISP to lower their price in 2018....as consumer I didn't against it.....but this creates the instability in the packages....last time its very easy to choose....now its all over the place...the package can flip flop in matter of months..!

If without Gobind we are still stuck with 30 Mbps which is RM 199. The normal packages that most people can afford is only 10 to 50 Mbps.
That's why elected government must have guts to give directive

From network engineering point of view, it is easy for Malaysia to get high speed like in Singapore.
Basically telco already covered the country with fiber. It is just across the causeway and you have access to rest of the world via all the submarine cables.
TM already has connection to Singapore. In fact a big part of TM traffic is via Singapore.

I feels it comes down to GLC mindset.
They already monopolize the market. Regardless of what services you use, TM take a cut, whether it is dark fiber, wavelength, HSBB, data center, submarine cable, etc. All the mobile telco are backed by TM's fiber. Every government agency is their customer.

Honestly, if you are TM management, you don't have to work and money still come to you. They are flag telco, they already have the brand recognition and everything. With that, they become complacent.

The goal then become: Do nothing. Just maintain the status quo.
Okay, I am not saying TM employee is not working. I am targeting TM management specifically.
Shareholder want it that way too. Why upgrade when you are still making record profit?

This is so ingrained into their culture that HR handbook explicitly spelled it out. Look for the screenshot I posted in Unifi thread.

So the only way to introduce competition is allow anyone to build last-mile network. There's no way the government can ask for the fiber infrastructure back already. Sudah Hak Milik TM. Not Kerajaan anymore.

After that, the new last-mile provider has a problem. We lack carrier hotel. How on earth the last mile provider want to aggregate traffic is a problem down the road. Is telco willing to meet you at the road side like what NBN is doing? If yes then no problem.

Then all the telco here are used to L3 services because TM literally force it on them. Is telco willing to accommodate by doing the extra work?

In NBN case, telco just need to send an XML file and the service will be up. No technician visit is needed. You bring your own router. Many telco has been asking for this but TM refused to do it after so many years. if any last mile provider can offer this, I feel like telco will love em.

NBN and Equinix Fabric are using the same programmability interface of Nokia gear. I know Cisco and Juniper can do this as well.
China hardware... Another question mark.

No, it was Rm 189.75 for 30Mbps. This was the month subscription fee that I paid when I first subscribed to Unifi in 2017.
When Gobin became minister in 2018, he forced ISP to lower their monthly subscription fee. But TM refused to lower.
What TM did was to give free upgrade from 30Mbps to 300Mbps.
Then TM gave another free upgrade again, from 300Mbps to 500Mbps.
Finally, TM gave free upgrade from 500Mbps to 800Mbps in November 2024.
Now, I am still paying 189.75 for 800Mbps.

If you look at TM's subscription plan, there is no 800Mbps plan for Rm 189.75.
This is the price that I paid since 2017.