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TM Nut’s Unifi fastest speed package is 20 mbps.
Obviously, 10 billion ringgit spent on Unifi fiber optic wiring is a waste of resources if the downloading speed is capped at 20 mpbs.
How Malaysia can compete with the world if China, Philippines and Vietnam can provide better and cheaper broadband service to their people?
‘Fastest’ broadband speed in RP: 112 mbps
By Karen Flores, abs-cbnNEWSh.com
MANILA, Philippines – Lopez-owned Sky Cable Corp. has formally launched its 112 megabytes per second (mbps) broadband service, touted as the fastest Internet connection in the country.
This is a far cry from current offerings of local telecommunications firms of 1 to 2 mbps, and Sky Cable’s own plans of 6 and 12 mbps.
“We are serious about providing the fastest Internet connection in the country. We want to continue to push the envelope,” said Ray Montinola, Sky Cable’s marketing head.
With an Internet connection of 112 mbps, one can download a 800-mb file in less than 2 minutes and watch 1080p high-definition videos online sans the buffering, Sky Cable said.
The company’s latest offering also comes with Sky Cable’s Platinum Package (premium channels), unlimited additional cable outlets, Sky Voice Plan 100 (100 minutes of calls to Canada and the United States per month), access to iWantv! watch-on-demand service, and a personal concierge.
But just like many good things, the 112-mbps broadband plan comes at a very high price — a whopping P20,000 a month.
Sky Cable has also limited the offer to the following areas in Rockwell, Makati — Rizal Tower, Hidalgo Place, Luna Gardens, Amorsolo Square, Joya Lofts and Towers and The Manansala.
Montinola said that they will first gauge the market’s response over the next few months before making it more widely available in other areas.
“We’re not really targeting high-end consumers. It depends on a person’s Internet usage. We’re after families who are multitaskers, who do heavy downloads,” he said.
Sky Cable’s 112-mbps broadband plan has brought the Philippines at par with First World countries such as Japan when it comes to Internet speeds.
A earlier survey conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) showed that Japan has the fastest advertised broadband speeds, having an average of 205 mbps.
Citing a World Bank report, Montinola noted that broadband connection is driving economic growth in developing countries. With its newest offering, he hopes that Sky Cable can play a vital role in helping the Philippines rise from poverty.
For more information about Sky Cable’s 112-mbps plan, call 636-9292 local 4952 or log on to www.mysky.com.ph.
abs-cbnNEWS.com is the online news department of ABS-CBN Interactive Inc., a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corp. ABS-CBN and Sky Cable are both part of the Lopez Group of Companies.
Let take best scenario with TMNUT Unifi 5MB VIP package for comparison, 1MB unit cost is RM 30 or USD 9.464.
For my case, 1 MB streamyx unit cost is RM 88 or USD 27.460. This comparison no yet factor in GDP per capita for these countries.
Thank PM Najib’s 1Malaysia for number one in everything.
 Julian Persaud, managing director for Google Southeast Asia, center, along with other Google executives and Singaporean government officials, at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new data center in Singapore on Thursday. The data center will be the Silicon Valley company’s second in Asia after construction began for its Hong Kong facility last week. (EPA Photo) Because Singapore can provide better infrastructure and cheaper cost for Google.
Cyberjaya can be renamed to Overseas Indian IT center with its 70% IT workers are imported from India.
Google to Build $157m Data Center in Singapore
Grace Chng – Straits Times Indonesia | December 16, 2011
Singapore. Search engine giant Google will invest US$120 million ($157 million) to build a data center in Jurong West to help it cope with the region’s huge growth in Internet traffic.
The facility, to be developed on a 2.45ha site, will come online in early 2013, and generate full-time and contract work for technicians, engineers and others.
Julian Persaud, the head of Google in South-east Asia, said at the ground-breaking ceremony yesterday: “More new users are coming online every day in Asia than anywhere else in the world. We’re building to provide our users in Singapore with the fastest and most reliable possible access to all our services.”
Internet World Stats, which tracks online users by regions, said Asia had more than 932 million Internet users as of March 31 this year. This is 44 per cent of the more than 2.1 billion Internet users globally.
Taj Meadows, Google’s manager of policy communications in the Asia-Pacific, said the Singapore data center will give users faster and more reliable access to services, including search and Gmail, without being constrained by network or capacity issues.
“It will also mean that users’ data can also be stored across two or more data centers In Singapore which means faster access and safer storage of files,” Meadows added.
Google will hire a small team of full-time staff, as well as contractors such as computer technicians, electrical and mechanical engineers and catering and security staff.
Staff details have not been finalized yet, said Meadows.
The Singapore facility will be one of three of Google’s in Asia. Construction for a US$300 million facility in Hong Kong began last week, and the company will also spend more than US$100 million to build a center in Taiwan.
Google’s data centre will be one of several in Singapore. Its search rival Yahoo has a data center in Singapore too.
Simon Chang, director of Google’s hardware operations in Asia, said the center in Singapore will be designed to operate at optimal efficiency, but it will be challenged by Singapore’s year- round heat and humidity. Continue reading >> Why Google not building its data center in Malaysia?
Because internet backbone in Malaysia is stink and suck.
Even Vietnam has a better internet infrastructure than Bolehland.
UPDATE: Google To Build Three Data Centers In Asia, Investment To Exceed $200M
–Google plans to build 3 data centers in Asia with investment exceeding $200 million
–Google says the move will help provide faster access to its services and customers in the region
By Yun-Hee Kim
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
HONG KONG (Dow Jones)–Google Inc. (GOOG) said Wednesday it will build its own data centers in Asia with an investment of more than $200 million as the U.S. Internet search giant looks to provide faster and more secure access to its services and customers that are growing in this region.
Google plans to build a data center in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong and has acquired land in each country, the company said in a statement. Data centers house computer, telecommunications and storage systems and typically include backup power supplies and security devices.
Continue reading >> Why Google misses Malaysia for its data center setup?
Malaysia is first country in South East Asia connected to internet superhighway in 1993 by Jaring, but the complacency and anti-competition business policy have dragged our feet to compete with the outside world.
The latest development and progress in the internet download speed benchmarking is a wake-up to Malaysia, we either buck up or kick up by our external competitors.
Let’s forget to compare Malaysia with Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc., they already sprung to a higher tier in the cyber world.
I just do a quick check on the latest internet download speed data available at http://chartsbin.com/view/2484, and I shaking my head in disbelief after seeing these below data.
Malaysia average downloading speed 179 KB/s, is a baseline to compare with our third world neighboring countries,
>China is 1.4X faster
>Thailand is 1.5X faster
>Vietnam is 2X faster
The consolidation price for Malaysia is our internet speed is still 1.4X faster than Indonesia, maybe this is the last feel good factor for our national IT policy makers.
This is only for downloading speed benchmarking, the broadband unit price is another burden for Malaysians. For instance, China internet broadband unit price is about at a half of Malaysia, and yet its users still enjoy 1.4 times faster speed than us.
Multi Super Corridor itself does not make Malaysia a first world IT hub if its people still cannot access to the world-class internet facility like in South Korea with 12.3X faster download speed than us.
In order to regain our competitiveness in the cyber world, the monopoly of backbone and last-mile services by Telekom has to be quickly dismantled before Malaysia is falling to last position in the SEA or even in the world.
I urge PM Najib to cut internet subscription fees by 50% in this coming budget announcement for Malaysians to enjoy more value for money internet services. Many youngsters and first-time voters may see this price cut is a positive move to regain our lose ground in the cyber world and their gratitudes may translate to votes for those government who is willing to listen to their grouses.
What the heck BN government is doing?
Yes, BN is also adopting LGE’s new CAT. Corruption, Arrogance and Talking.
South Korea tops in Internet download speed: study
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hxNAcAuiuJitwHBPVHeBS0QwRwVA?docId=CNG.5cc676d2b02da276cd06b20df22fe7f6.a21
WASHINGTON — South Korea has the world’s top Internet download speeds followed by Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Latvia, according to a study released on Tuesday.
The United States placed just 26th in the analysis of the speed of worldwide Internet connections conducted by Pando Networks.
The average download speed in South Korea was 2,202 kilobytes per second, Pando said, with Romania (1,909 KBps), Bulgaria (1,611 KBps), Lithuania (1,462 KBps and Latvia (1,377 KBps) rounding out the top five.
Japan was next at 1,364 KBps, followed by Sweden (1,234 KBps), Ukraine (1,190 KBps), Denmark (1,020 KBps) and Hong Kong (992 KBps).
The average download speed in the United States was 606 KBps, slightly better than the worldwide average of 580 KBps, Pando said.
The study was based on 27 million downloads by 20 million computers in 224 countries from January through June 2011, Pando said.
The slowest average download speed was recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo at 13 KBps, followed by the Central African Republic at 14 KBps and the Comoros at 23 KBps.
“The disparities we found were striking,” Pando chief executive Robert Levitan said in a release.
“While, in general, developed economies outpaced the developing world in average download speeds, big names such as the US, UK, France, China and Canada were not even close to being the fastest,” Levitan said.
Britain had average download speeds of 599 KBps, France 604 KBps, China 245 KBps, and Canada 579 KBps.
“Instead, we saw high speeds in markets such as Eastern Europe where focus on infrastructural development and favorable geography promote a higher level of connectivity,” Levitan said.
An interactive map of the data is available at chartsbin.com/view/2484.
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