Hong Kong’s Broadband service is many times better than Malaysia
Remember Malaysia released 4mbps broadband few months ago? It’s only available in a few area in Kuala Lumpur and Klang Valley, not the whole Malaysia. Moreover, it’s still not on Fibre Optic if I am not wrong, still running through telephone cable.
I listened to a Cantonese podcast and knew about Hong Kong’s broadband service and now I know Malaysia is so far behind Hong Kong. Our most basic broadband from Streamyx, Jaring or Maxis or whatever is 384kbps and still on ADSL through telephone line. Then I saw some Hong Kong’s broadband TVC (Television Commercial), it seems like they are laughing at people who are using broadband through telephone line, because now they are going into Fibre Optic world. They are advertising their Fibre Optic line everywhere.
Their lowest, most basic plan is like 25mbps. Woah! It’s 50 times faster than mine! What the heck? And they do offers 1000mbps or 1gbps broadband to home too, for about US$238. That’s too much for me, the most simple, basic plan is enough for me if I got a chance to use such fast broadband.
In Malaysia also got Fibre Optic connection, but still it’s limited to some area and the fastest it provide is 2mbps. It Penang, we got PenangFON providing this service but somehow my apartment is not available yet.
Check out this for Hong Kong Broadband Network’s broadband plan for your reference. (It’s in Chinese)
Broadband package there is like Singapore, giving out free gift like Sony PSP, iPod, Microsoft Xbox and much much more. Not like here, only provide you a free chiplak modem and some free online value added service.
I was just wondering, when Malaysia only will get such fast speed for Internet. I just can’t stand my current 512kbps broadband, I probably need a upgrade to 1mbps since Streamyx is having a promotion right now. Read that TM Net will launch Fibre Optic connection next year, so let’s wait. But it will take a long time also, to lay the cables, and stuff.
RedesignMalaysia, For Better Broadband, For Better Rakyat.
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