Tete-A-Tech

A walk down the Yellow Brick Road of Malaysia's Corridor of the future

by Bernice Low, Malaysia

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Dear Deputy Prime Minister

Sep 29, 2008 14:56

Congratulations on the launch of your personal Web site, www.1malaysia.com.my.

It is a rather late foray into cyberspace--all things considered, the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) was launched in 1998 after all. But better late than never, eh?

As a content and digital media professional, and someone who has been involved in the development and production of Web content for a modest five years, please allow me to offer my RM2.45 worth of professional advice and comments on your Web site.
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A pox on the House of TM!

Sep 3, 2008 12:50

I feel disgruntled today.

News is out. Telekom Malaysia has been awarded the High Speed Broadband contract by the Government of Malaysia. According to BK Sidhu's article, "Govt gives TM broadband job", in Starbiz today:
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ICT? Poor people don't need ICT!

Aug 30, 2008 15:20

Okay, so let's assume we fast forward to 2009 and some households and offices in Malaysia already have HSBB and FTTH. (Gotta love those acronyms).

So what? There's no content!

Having realized that the Prime Minister was delivering his budget speech at 4pm, and not 9am as I originally thought, I scrambled to find an online solution. Since the office has no TV and bad radio reception, a streaming video was probably my best bet. But to no avail.
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Why is TM Net blocking access to Malaysia-Today? Answer: On MCMC orders.

Aug 27, 2008 11:29

If you've tried to log into Malaysia-Today.net, you will see this.

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Malaysiakini.com has the story that ISP TMNet was under orders to block the DNS of Malaysia-Today.net on the basis that

�It is being blocked because we found that some of the comments on the
website were insensitive, bordering on incitement,� - Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) chief operating officer Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi quoted by Malaysiakini.

According to various blog sources, the original malaysia-today.net URL remains accessible only via ISPs Time, Jaring and Maxis (watch for those to go down soon).

Malaysia Today's Administrators have set up a blog on Livejournal to keep Malaysians updated in the event that MToday is hacked or blocked. Its administrator has posted this singular message:

As of 26th August 2008 @ 8.20PM, if you are having trouble accessing Malaysia-Today.net please use:-

http://mt.harapanmalaysia.com/2008

More to be added soon. Help spread the word!

This will be a temporary site. TMNet Streamyx is blocking http://Malaysia-Today.net on their service-level. Please check back
here if you are unable to view MT and in case the alternative site is
inaccessible.

An additional comment at the bottom of the page adds another fix:

Please be informed that TM is blocking access to Malaysia Today
(www.malaysia-today.net) via its DNS servers. To overcome this problem,
you need to define your primary DNS server as 208.67.222.222 and
secondary server ~~202.188.0.133~~ 208.67.220.220 either on your router or your
PC/notebook. This will beat the blockage.

Updated: You can also type the IP address of Malaysia-Today.com directly into your browser URL - 117.120.1.155. (thanks to reader Pakac Luteb)

Kindly do all Malaysians, living in Malaysia and overseas, a favor, and let them know where to point their browsers.

This is a grim development indeed.

Malaysianinsider.com carries a story that the government is planning to target the blogosphere next.

Is this a sign of things and times to come for Malaysians and the alternative media?

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Once upon a time, in broadband la-la land...

Aug 23, 2008 19:47

Up until last month, the Government's planned HSBB (High Speed Broadband) project that would finally deliver optic fiber to the home (a.k.a. FTTH) was seen as a done deal. Telekom Malaysia was to commit RM11.3 billion to the project, with the Government topping up the kitty with a co-investment of RM2.4 billion. According to Telekom Malaysia, the project will take 10 years to complete.

Enter an unknown entity--High Speed Broadband Technology Sdn Bhd (HSBT). And what was a shoo-in for the race leader Telekom Malaysia, began to take the form of a serious competition for the gold medal prize of the right to build, own and operate Malaysia's high-speed broadband infrastructure.
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About Bernice Low

Bernice Low is a screenwriter and pen-for-hire. At age 11 (in the era of BB--Before Blog) Bernice started her own newspaper, the Daily Jelly. It lasted two days before she was stopped from using school newsprint supplies for frivolous activities. She loves Cartoon Network's Bill and Mandy, has a thing for TV doctors House and MacDreamy, and is the proud owner of a 32-inch flat-screen TV. She believes diamonds and iPods are a girl's best friend. Her blog is her latest guilty pleasure.