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Re: [ossig] DNS problems


On Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003, at 20:53 Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, Ditesh Kumar wrote:

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 20:13, Michael Choo wrote:

Actually, all the other telco's can provide DSL service as well (Time,
Digi, Maxis).
However they are not bothered to do it for mass market, rather
focussing on corporate business only.

So Telekom Malaysia is getting the business because the others are not
bothered for your $$, they prefer the $$$$$ which they can charge the
corporate sector.
It is my understanding that other telco's DO NOT have access to the last
mile copper line since it is improperly owned by Telekom Malaysia. You
think Maxis and Jaring don't want to offer broadband services? I doubt
that - there is a lucrative market present as can be seen by the
overwhelming demand for broadband - and Maxis and Jaring are not blind
to this. I remember reading some time back Jaring was pressuring some
gov agency in charge of telco/isps to liberate the last mile lines. By
all accounts, Jaring saw the demand for broadband more clearly and
earlier than TMnet. Please do keep in mind that Maxis is the king of the
cellular mass market - they, of everybody else, should have definitely
seen the potential for broadband.
The other telco's are not willing to invest in the last mile. Even those with housing projects allocated to them are not doing their jobs.
BTW, with today's technology, last mile doesn't have to be copper in the ground, but are they doing anything about it?

Maxis knows the potential about broadband, as long as it's corporate market. However, the last i heard, they are only going to concentrate on their cellular business, everything else is secondary... so there goes the competition, voluntarily.


The reason they offer it in selected areas is because of the priori
condition that they do not own the physical copper lines.
Don't need copper lines, even in places where they have copper lines, they aren't doing much.
I've got a friend whom applied for Time broadband in Mont Kiara, waited 6 months... nothing, when streamyx is available there, he got it in a week.


Time's broadband is wireless, AFAIK. To use wireless, you've gotta incur
costs of setting up access points compared to physical copper lines that
are already in place and working well.
Time broadband also include DSL service.
Like i said, don't have to be copper, cost of DSLAM is even more than wireless access points.

If I'm mistaked in my facts, I'd love to be corrected.

Go take a good look at the web pages of the Other telcos.

cheers
-Mike


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