I was wondering as well since TS mentioned that they might have installed a indoor micro base station just to showcase their new package at the fair.

It's true. The device they used is actually a micro base station which is placed somewhere near their booth fed with some high speed fiber connection that gives them bandwidth in excess of over 20mbps. The micro base station is from ZTE. IT's similar to those we frequently see in Japan.
That's why you can still get excellent connectivity even in the underground subway and skyscraper towers.

Now the question is will all those existing areas with old equipments will be replaced with the newer base stations. Will P1 spend that amount of money to replace equipments not even a year old? How are they going to get back what they invested?

Malaysians are starting to learn how to complain for not getting what they pay for which is good.

As MCMC had came out with the ruling of making sure that subscribers should be getting 80% of their broadband speeds to be deemed as satisfying,it is wrong for P1 to advertise 10mbps when none of the subscribers could get close to 7-8mbps outside the promotion booth area. They should be more straightforward by selling the package at more reasonable speeds like "5mbps-6mbps" instead.

I understand the frustration of TS which said that users will never see speeds which are close to 10mbps in true performance tests in most P1 coverage areas accept for promo booths and press rooms.

Having cap with a small 10gb volume with a high price such as 10gb is already frustrating enough. Those who are expecting 5mbps speeds and paying RM149 will be very disappointed.

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Added on April 13, 2009, 2:28 amNo it's nothing to do with signal strength.

Imagine this, you have a 54mbps Wifi connection between your pc and your access point(thought to be the base station).
You access point is only hooked up to a 56k connection. Will you ever see anything close to 54mbps when surfing the net?

Isps wil never tell you this. What they are promoting here is just the connection speed between your modem and the nearest base station. Unless P1 can upgrade all the backhaul connections from the base stations to use a STM-1 fiber link or to a metro ethernet network that links back to their gateway, 10mbps remains your link connection just as how DiGi, Maxis and Celcom promotes their HSPA services.

This post has been edited by cameltoe: Apr 13 2009, 02:28 AM

The biggest hurdle today for Malaysia in building broadband last mile networks is because we lacking in a fast, economical and neutral national all ip-based backbone for data/internet. Our only hope is the upcoming HSBB national NGN grid but since it's totally owned by TM we can't put too much bet on it to save us because "net neutrality" is in question.