Is your area TM HSBB ready?

I guess most of you are frustrated about the current broadband scene in Malaysia.

High charges,frequent disconnections and slower than advertised speeds are the main rants of of internet users.

Even our current PM, Dato' Seri Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak says than the current speed is too slow to catch up with developed nations.

With his support and directive, high speed broadband is now in progress with trials going on in Taman Tun Dr. Ismail and Bangsar and hopefully it will be available in 2010 with speeds of at least 10mbps.

This is a huge relief for us but cost and stability still remains a mystery for us users.

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/12/29/itfeature/5358615&sec=itfeature


However, if you want to know whether TM has designated your area as the next spot for HSBB, see whether....

1) you see any road digging in your area with TM staff running around

2) Spot these two boxes being added to your area.



Both pictures are not mine as I found it here:
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1172732/+1200

but I can safely say that Bandar Sri Damansara and some housing areas in Kepong Baru are going to be the next spots for TM HSBB.

Hopefully it is in the first quarter of 2010.

Streamyx the fastest and cheapest?

You must be joking. Read and watch the videos to find out a Hong Kong Broadband company's ambitious dream of providing 100mbps at USD$13 per month.(yes, that's about RM52 per month).Too bad we are in Malaysia.


While you’re sulking over your slow Internet connection and probably waiting for this page to fully load, the folks in Hong Kong will be enjoying 100Mbps Internet speed at 50% of its original price. All they have to do is introduce a friend, and both of them get the half price benefit, paying only USD$13 a month each. You know what’s best? They’re guaranteed at least 80% of the advertised speed when browsing domestic websites, sounds like such a far fetched dream for us.



“William Yeung, Chief Executive Officer of HKBN noted that at least 32% of Internet users in Hong Kong suffer from broadband speeds below 10Mbps, and the Hong Kong special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China lags behind Korea and Japan in terms of fiber to the home service, something Yeung would like to see changed.”



Apart from that, HKBN also provide speed of up to 1Gbps using fiber optics network. Hit the jump for some interesting advertisements from HKBN telling users to switch from slow DSL service to fiber optics.




http://www.lowyat.net/v2/latest/1gbps-internet-connection-2.html

The web in 5 years from today

This is what is going to happen according to Google CEO, Eric Schmidt in 5 years. This really shows how slow the development for broadband in Malaysia as other countries have 100mbps NOW and considering the resources and expertise in this country it's a wonder why we have not advanced at least as much as Singapore.

The web in 5 years from today, according to Eric Schmidt, Google CEO

At the Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame event in Salt Lake City on Friday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt described the future sought by Google and other tech companies: 100-megabit broadband and a supercomputer in every pocket.

“A billion people on the planet are carrying supercomputers in their hands,” Schmidt said in a conversation with Fusion-io CEO David Bradford. “Now you think of them as mobile phones, but that’s not what they really are. They’re video cameras. They’re GPS devices. They’re powerful computers. They have powerful screens. They can do many many different things, and oh, by the way, you can talk on them too. That’s what the mobile phone of today is.”

And in the next few years, he said, you’ll see things you can’t even imagine now.

Some of his comments were:

* Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.
* Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly.
* Five years is a factor of ten in Moore’s Law, meaning that computers will be capable of far more by that time than they are today.
* Within five years there will be broadband well above 100MB in performance – and distribution distinctions between TV, radio and the web will go away.
* “We’re starting to make signifigant money off of Youtube”, content will move towards more video.
* “Real time information is just as valuable as all the other information, we want it included in our search results.”
* There are many companies beyond Twitter and Facebook doing real time.
* “We can index real-time info now – but how do we rank it?”
* It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. Learning how to rank that “is the great challenge of the age.” Schmidt believes Google can solve that problem.

http://momento24.com/en/2009/10/28/the-web-in-5-years-from-today-according-to-eric-schmidt-google-ceo/

High Speed Broadband at last?

Rejoice as TM will (finally) increase the speed of internet access for us at the middle of next year.(why so long?)


High-speed broadband to be deployed in 2010

2009/10/22

The country's high-speed broadband is expected to be deployed by middle of next year, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

Deputy Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum said at the moment the system was being tested at four exchanges in the Klang Valley namely Bangsar, Shah Alam, Subang Jaya and Taman Tun Dr Ismail.

Telekom Malaysia, he said, had also started physical work at 22 other exchanges nationwide.

"The network access will provide high-speed broadband via 1.3 million premises in the Klang Valley, Iskandar Malaysia and in several economic and industrial zones in Malaysia.


"The comprehensive test is to be completed this year and the service will come on stream by middle of next year," he said in reply to Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (PKR-Machang) during question time.

He said that apart from last mile access, the joint venture project between the government and Telekom Malaysia would also cover core network and international gateway which was currently under preparation.

"Most of the domestic core network has been installed and is being tested. As for the international gateway, the existing American-Asia Gateway undersea cable system is being enhanced and expected to be completed by end of this year," he said. - Bernama

http://www.nst.com.my/articles/20091022130157/Article/index_html