Had a casual talk with him regarding this. Most of it reflect my opinion and western influence thinking and observation.

#1 - yes regulation bad for Torrent and WoW users, BUT great for others who dont torrent or play WoW
#2 - Old Fashion thinking ... they already control the market, every provider still has to pay them for useage
#3 - Improving will cost TM Hundreds of Millions if not a billion, that times conversion rate to USD ... BILLIONS of RM
#4 - The only ppl who get rich in Malayisa are Business owners and executives. Why spread the wealth when they can keep all? Over the last few years in malaysia, prices nearly doubled to tripled, yet salary almost remained the same.  And from what i've seen here you think Malaysia is going to invest into improving when they still consider ADSL NEW ?

I remember when i first came to malaysia in 2002, No ADSL, and they were trying to push me to buy IDSN .. I was like WTF??? ISDN? That crap has been obsolete in the US years ago..

Do you even recall the last time you went to a coffee shop and seen a lorry driver drive up in a MERC? Only ppl i see drive up in MERC are Business Owners, Politicians and Executives... nuff said ...
#5 - You will NEVER see any HUGE improvements for a while until TM has a competitor. And that will never happen because the size of the Ringgit and Malaysia gov would prob pass a bill to charge a HUGE TARIFF if any competitor is allowed to or decide to do it.

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Added on September 15, 2009, 12:14 pm
Why pay for something that will cost them BILLIONS while the quick fix is to hire a low level entry, just out of school worker who CLAIMS they can do it? Cost them peanuts !

I miss something? what question?

I really don't take it as competition .. 2 different agendas ...

I know what you are going to say, its all about the money ... Listen, believe it or not, i dont even play wow, doing guild websites, this tunnel thingy is all more hobby for me, though expensive hobby. I've been funding and maintaining the LoTh websites all these years out my own pocket.  Same with the Tunnel , i kept the rates at reasonable with the others. The special rates i gave are for the testers , and with those rates, i would like need 3x more user just to cover cost.

Most ppl who ran something like this started with 1 server. I started with 4 and moved it to 6 a few days later,  I forked out out of my own pocket for 1 dedicated Server and 5 other servers just to see which does better. Most ppl did what 1-2 weeks free testing? I did almost 1 and 1/2 months of free testing. Never collected a dime, paid for all the servers out of my pocket.

I might not be as much as a guru like other providers, i just do enough that it gets the job done. Experimenting with different Datacenters, different server locations. Complicated? Whats so complicated with that?

I already have backings from a few companies that is interested what i am trying to do. As i told my staff, majority of the money is going to cost of servers, anything extra will go towards new server, i will not overload nor come close to overloading 45-55% server load max, well unless a disaster hits majority of my servers and i have to divert. lol But then again, im not too worried about that cause i still have dedicated servers that i own for the companies that helped out on standby JIC something does happen.
Im an ABC , born and raised in NYC , ex - US NAVY ,38 years old, and retired 5 years ago ( Thank u Apple and Google !! ) . Take it for what its worth, believe me, dont believe me, thats all up to you guys... Competing ... no need, im too old for that and dont want the headache ...

So with your question about it will it effect, i really dont think so, other providers made a good name for themselves already. They have loyal followers.