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Recently, TM and Maxis concluded a 10-year agreement for TM to provide High Speed Broadband (HSBB) Access Services to Maxis. According to RHB research, Maxis with the agreement, can instantly roll out fixed home services to a potential pool of higher ARPU customers with last mile access via TM’s HSBB network to 700k premises , and up to 1.3m premises by end-2012. Currently, Maxis’ fixed home services is limited to Bandar Utama, Sierramas, Bangsar and Sri Hartamas via its own fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network. And, as Finance Malaysia know, Maxis is targeting to launch its service in the newly popular township of Puchong. Maxis's secret weapon - Content All in one, Maxis plans to roll out are IPTV, VoIP, video-on-demand (VoD) and high speed Internet. In fact, TM itself already offers some form of IPTV and VoD bundled in together with its core service of high speed Internet in its UniFi packages. Hence, content is indeed a very important element for Maxis to stand out. It is very li...

Forget about the old fixed line internet connections anymore. We have the on-the-go broadband services, which provide almost unlimited boundaries for internet lover to surf anytime anywhere. However, you may not know a very unpleasant scenario is happening in Malaysia (at least I found out now). Although I comment about TM's monopoly status in fixed line internet connection previously, I still prefer Streamyx for its unlimited surfing, lower monthly charges, and stable connectivity. Most importantly, more than one people can online at the same time, without extra fees. Whereas, broadband cannot. Don't know #1 Recently, I moved to a new area, and hopes to subscribe for Streamyx (fixed line internet service provided by TM ). However, I was shock to found out that I cannot subscribe for Streamyx , because my area was under Maxis territory . Wow… Sounds like I am living in the battle-field, where Maxis won the game!!! The reason given was that my area's telephone line is b...

In frustration and disappointment, I wrote this post about the connectivity problem of our beloved Malaysia. I am writing this at a cafe, where I have to bare all the petrol and beverages costs in order to arrived. Without further ado, I opened my laptop while waiting for my hot white coffee, to express what's the feeling inside me. Deep down in me, I want to channel a very clear message to TM and Government that Rakyat like us are very very very frustrated with the Internet service provided by TM . I am bringing up the feeling of Malaysians as a whole that Streamyx is nowhere to transform our nation to high-income nation. Please do not blame me first. Let me explain my point of view as below: Dear TM: - The Internet connection at my area (at least) was always down, even though I had highlighted to them a few times. Please note that I am just " highlighting " to TM. But, these seems not working without " complaining ". Dear Government: - First we have to ask ou...