Broadband in Malaysia today

National Broadband Initiative (NBI)
Highspeed Broadband Zone 2 (HSBB2)


What are the types of services available today?

http://www.skmm.gov.my/attachment/pdf/SKMM-Ovum_Industry_Briefing_1.pdf


What does it cost to obtain Internet access in Malaysia now?

Fixed wire telephone (RM30/mo) + Internet subscription (RM79/mo) = RM109/mo

Broadband USB stick (RM189) + Internet subscription (RM60/mo) = RM249

Is the average-income family able to obtain Internet access? 

Yes

Can poor families obtain Internet access?

No, the service is still expensive for many poor families

Are there still people who do not have Internet access in Kelantan (supposedly the poorest state in Malaysia)? 

Yes. These are poor families who cannot afford the monthly subscription for Internet, so their school-going children do not have Internet at home. The children seek Internet access at their classmate's home or go to see their teachers about this problem (teachers have Internet at home).


Are schoolchildren interested in the Internet?

Yes

What do schoolchildren like about the Internet?

They can find resources for their class assignments and presentations. They never knew there is so much useful information about the world they live in.

Is the Internet useful at all?

Yes

Will the Internet continue to exist?

Yes

Has the Internet impacted on life at all?

Yes. We depend on the Internet for everything - income tax filing, university websites, library collections, e-mail, Facebook, Geni, blogs, govt websites, are among the useful ones.


What are the bad things about the Internet?

Borderless, a lot of porn material are still online, spam, bluffs and fakes, imposters, money suckers, scams, cheats, unreal reality, hard to tell what is true, most stuff are untrue except those from govt websites and known companies. Sometimes it is not worth visiting some websites.

SKMM

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, MCMC (Suruhanjaya dan Komunikasi Multimedia Malaysia, SKMM) is a Government body that sees to the implementation of ICT in Malaysia. It determines what sort of ICT is needed, for what purpose and sets the rules and guidelines. It also produces data about the ICT roll-outs and usage in Malaysia, every year. it determines what ICT penetration is needed for Malaysia. http://www.skmm.gov.my/

National Broadband Initiative (NBI)

Graph hsbb3 (PDF)

2005
2006
2007
2008 target 20%, actual 21.1%
2009 target 30%, actual 31.7%
2010 target 50%, actual 54%
2011
2012

The last Government-set target for ICT penetration in 2010 for Malaysia was 50%. We were told at yesterday's Minggu IT 2012 held at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kubang Kerian on 29 February 2012, that we have exceeded this target. From 2009 data published by SKMM, we have a population of 29.6 million people (Q3 2009) and 16 million Internet users (Q1 2009). This gives an Internet penetration of 54% (Q1 2009).

Highspeed Broadband Zone 2 (HSBB2) (PDF)

For Kelantan, the ICT peneration is still short of the targeted 50%; Kelantan has approximately 40-44% ICT penetration. So a lot of ICT work needs to be done for Kelantan in order to get it up to the targeted 50% so the population of Kelantan benefits from ICT.

Kampung Tanpa Wayar Project (PDF)

In the Kampung Tanpa Wayar Project, Maxis Mobile Sdn Bhd is the Designated Service Provider (DSP) responsible for providing WiFi to Kelantan, under the 'Kampung Tanpa Wayar Project' under the Collective Broadband Access Phase 1, SKMM. Maxis will provide WiFi for these 5 districts (Universal Service Target, UST) - Tumpat, Beta, Ketereh, Jeli and Gua Musang.

Online Digital Review of Asia Pacific (e-DIRAP)

This is the Online Digital Review of Asia Pacific and its call to be online as the print edition is expensive, slow and difficult to publish on time.

http://www.digital-review.org/

The new e-DIRAP is seeking the collaboration of netizens in an open, participatory manner, to sustain its mission of reviewing, analyzing, forecasting and reporting on ICT and development issues.

DIRAP has been a biennial comprehensive review of the state of diffusion, adoption and application of ICTs in 30 economies of the Asia Pacific region. The print publication model has been expensive and time-consuming to produce, and providing current ICT data such as country statistics has been a characteristic weakness, given the lengthy print preparation cycle causing the timeliness to fall behind.

2009-2010 Chapter 29, pp255-261 .my Malaysia (PDF)

2007-2008 Chapter 14, pp196-203 .my Malaysia (PDF)

2005-2006 Chapter 20, pp169-174 .my Malaysia (PDF)

2003-2004 Final May pp188-195 .my Malaysia (PDF)