INSPIRED: UniFi
THE 2010/2011 INSPIRED/EXPIRED AWARDS
Category: Least Slow High-speed Internet Service
For a country with a burgeoning online life — my friends who aren’t on Facebook I can count with my own fingers — our Internet speeds are rather leisurely. For total Internet population we are 28th in the world (with 17 million users by 2009); as for fastest Internet speeds we are 38th (1.19Mbit/s). Streamyx is proverbial; WiMAX services like P1 do the ASTRO thing every time it rains, or if you face the modem the wrong way. Or if they feel like it.
GAH, INTERNET!
So yes, TM’s UniFi is nice. I got 300 kB/s on a torrent download the other day. Thing is, it could be even better. Telekom Malaysia owns all of Malaysia’s last kilometre infrastructure; they’ve no reason to improve if they own a monopoly on broadband. (Just look at Streamyx!) And, so far, a third of their investment for the UniFi project (RM990 million) came from taxpayers’ pockets.
Verdict: a grudging INSPIRED. Grudging.
(Zedeck Siew)
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