Re: [ossig] Jaring Wireless Broadband $$

[Tze-Meng Tan <tmtan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 12, 2004, at 16:07, Dinesh Nair wrote:
>
> not necessarily. many other telcos will pull your local PoP to 
> singapore
> where you connect into an IX or the like. the cost of an STM-1 
> (155Mbps)
> is much, much lower than the above, more in the region of RM12-15mil
> annually.

forgot about our southern neighbour :) so is Jaring doing this, and if 
not, why not? besides the dubious "unpatriotic" argument

> couple this international bandwidth with BGP peering with major local 
> isps
> at EastGate and a potential broadband player could offer profitable
> service in the RM80-RM100 range for 1Mbps/256Kbps ADSL type links.

Unless something has happened recently, most of the local ISPs are not 
peering at eastgate, since TM considers eastgate its commercial IX and 
its a pay to peer model. A gathering of these ISPs (without TM) at MCMC 
about 2 years ago was to have attempted something. I was at that 
meeting but did not see any outcome. Last time I bothered to check, 
TMnet to Maxis traceroute went via STIX, and TM was intentionally 
keeping the TMnet Jaring peering bandwidth below 100 Mbps despite it 
hitting 100% almost the whole day.




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