Malaysia’s Minister of Energy, Water and Telecommunications, Dr Lim Keng Yaik has finally raised his voice against the poor broadband service in the country.
Dr Lim has made a pledge to lead a consumer awareness campaign against poor quality broadband services. [NST]
I’m obviously not the only one in Malaysia to have problem with Streamyx, our largest broadband service provider. Many bloggers had voiced their disgust at the low speed connection and the unstability of the ISP.
Dr Lim however will not likely to point the finger at Streamyx, but to penalize on those companies that have obtained the broadband license but have do nothing so far.
Dr Lim has his point though, the failure in action from other license holders has allowed Streamyx to dominate the market and happily provide poor connections while continue sucking the money from the consumers that have not much option for broadband service.
I’m a bit amazed that Dr Lim has taken so long to do something on our broadband service. Well at least Dr Lim is improving himself.. I still remember an article from BBC, where his ministry office mentioned that “internet was not his responsibility.” [BBC]
Let’s hope the broadband service quality in Malaysia can be improved in reasonable future.
August 27th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
cannot blame our minister lar, ppl like Lim Keng Aik no time use internet, where know internet so slow one.
August 28th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
ken.. I know you are being sarcastic, as always. Seriously there’s no excuse for a nation’s Communication Minister to be so insensitive in the latest development of broadband related issues.
It’s not really something new about our poor broadband services, Dr Lim certainly take too long to be notified the problem, I can just hope that he is serious on making something right this time.
August 31st, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Lim Keng Yaik’s unhappy with Malaysia’s broadband? So is everybody! You might find this site interesting - http://www.redesignmalaysia.com. It’s an initiative to improve broadband in Malaysia, and covers broadband news as well as provides a coverage map and ISP comparision.
August 31st, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Josh.. your website is well designed, but with not much unique contents. Most if not all of the articles are copy and paste, you need to do better than that to draw regular visitors.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:50 am
Yes - creating new contents is something we’re gonna do more of in future, however at this stage we are limited by time. If you see the Features section, you might notice a comprehensive article based on lots of research, and accompanying illustrations.
However, for the first phase, we thought it’ll definitely be useful to have all the articles we could find online sorted by category, for public reference. Especially since The Star archives expire after sometime.
The work we’ve put into the site so far is mainly for the site framework more than content…(programming the digital map was quite challenging, so was the data compilation - hundreds of articles, thousands of map placemarks, and we’re still adding coverage info. Keep in mind that for the coverage map…we were not provided a map - we had to transpose it based on text data.) Very time consuming.
Hence, hope you understand that what we have on the site is the best we can do for now, and submissions are not only welcome, but necessary for the website to succeeed - ultimately the site cannot work if it is not community driven. Do let me know if you have anything to contribute, thanks, and if you’ll be interested to be a guest columnist.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:36 am
I can see that effort is put in for the website, still you need to do better than that. Broadband is not my field, nothing I can contribute, good luck though.