Stealing cables few thousand metres deep not likely, but damaging cables to create more job and spoiling your Christmas joyful cheers, YES.

Anyway with the slump in oil prices, it doesn't sound good. Imagine how it will affect the Middle East countries in the next coming months...

Development projects in Dubai..

The tons of workers from South Asia(India, Bangladesh, etc.) flocking there to work in the construction sector.

Becoming jobless..the chain effect and unrest.

TM will most likely not use FLAG for Europe links because it's a competitor network to them.
They are part of the SEA-ME-WE-4 consortium which is in direct competition with FLAG.
It's like taking their budget spending and paying it to their direct competitor.

But on the other hand another major carrier grade ISP in Malaysia is using FLAG as its Europe backbone.They are wise enough to make such strategic move and it'll get even better in 2 years time when the new FLAG NGN undersea cable is up and running.

This goes to show that TM is run by dumb idiots who are lousy and incompetent.

I feel sad for Malaysia when I heard the announcement that our HSBB project was awarded solely to TM alone to build and manage it.

Malaysians will never get to have a world class network when you have a company which will be monopolizing the whole HSBB network.

Lousy network maintenance management sound more like it.

It takes days for TM standard staffs compared to just 1-2 hours for our neighbours down south as well as the far east countries like HK, Taiwan and Japan for emergency recovery.

From my experience liaising with them, even when you send in an email at 3am in the morning, you'll get an instant direct reply within 1-2 hours their network admin.

Try sending a complain email to TM and count the number of days they take to reply you with a standard child written scripts.Useless bunch of idiots.

Would you want to allow them to handle our next generation HSBB network?