Malaysia is getting ready to fly to another height?

Malaysia used to be the richest and most developed country in the region.However,since last 10 years,the economy in Malaysia was lacking of encouragements and so growing quite slow.As the current prime minister in Malaysia,Najib wants to make some revolutions-to unite all nations in the country and create more opportunities to all people by investing some great amount into a few potential industries and markets.Some labs of the government has been studying in the topics and we could see a part of research results through the official statement.

The one I’m interested in is Greater Kuala Lumpur Plan because I may keep living in KL for a number of years.The development of KL will affect my life here.Of course,I believe that will bring to me some opportunities too.

The proposed MRT plan could reduce the expense of travelling.It may also ease the congestions in city areas and so improve the efficiency of  transport and logistics industry.

The proposed high speed train service linking Kuala Lumpur and Singapore(may extend to other major cities in the region in long term) will attract more visitors and provide more connections between the two financial cities,effectively promoting the complementarity of resources.

The proposed investment on broadband services and IT will eliminate the digital gap to catch the trends in the world.Moreover,it could speed up the delivery system in either public or private sector to show a much transparent,fair and efficient financial environment.

In fact,more than 100 proposed points are advised by the intelligent units.The formal presentation of the whole project will be announced by PM in the coming weeks.For me,I just hope that what they talk could be run thoroughly.

Still a long way to go

I just checked out the actual speed test results from speedtest.net which is a quite popular website to test the connection speed and latency.The database shows the rankings of Internet speed of almost all countries.

rankingsNo surprises that Korea and Japan are in the top of the list.However,as a quite famous country in South East Asia,Malaysia only gets the 90th on download speed and the 78th on upload speed.

I think it’s time for the country to move on developing good broadband services,otherwise the country will go to downside in this age of information.

Slow international links

I have talked about the issues bulks of times and I don’t think I will stop talking it so soon as the issue seems not to be solved in a moment.

I got some talks from BFM 89.9.The conversation figured out the position of the broadband development and the obstacles on it.I believe you might be interested in hearing it.Here we go:

Wong Kian Lon, founder of the recently bought over Biz Surf Wimax, talks about Broadband in Malaysia talks about the problems facing users and how the High Speed Broadband Plan will effect us all.

After listening to the dialogue,I think you will feel sad because the broadband service will likely have no substantial improvements in a short time.For me,I’m looking forward to a wireless servicer provider which could offer a cheap price and stable connection.

Could I get it?

U mobile is released

U mobile(018) is one new broadband solution,which is HSDPA(3.5G)-driven service which currently can provide the speed up to 3.6mbps.Now it is during the promotional period and the consumer package ‘surf with you’ will only cost you RM78 monthly(bundled by a 2-year contract) and the price is included a HSDPA modem.

U mobile

By the way the coverage area is not so wide as some others currently,but in their words,they are continuing doing the expansions.

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