The Wimax Malaysia Rollout Race Begins

A Malaysian’s characteristic is procrastination. I, myself, admit as being a victim of procrastination too. Being in a procrastinating culture, we like the thrill and adrenaline of completing or delivering goals last minute. Same goes to the Malaysia Wimax rollout now as the authorized license holders are racing to meet the end of August deadline.

At first, there were 4 authorized Malaysia Wimax license holders; Green Packet Bhd, REDtone International Bhd, YTL E-Solutions Bhd and Asiaspace Dotcom Sdn Bhd. Now, we’ve only heard a lot of Packet One (P1) followed by YTL E-Solutions then REDtone. Can the Wimax license holders other than P1 meet the deadline? Can P1 easily scale-up not only to serve a few hundred customers but a few million?

I would so like to know and see how all 4 Wimax license holders pullout their stops this August. From the recent media conference by P1 announced:

P1 intends to hold an event on Aug 19 to announce the prices and speeds.

Source: The Star, InTech

Then, following close behind in The Edge Daily is the announcement by REDtone:

REDtone International Bhd is planning a soft launch of its high-speed Internet access service using WiMAX technology in Kota Kinabalu on Aug 20.

Source: The Edge Daily

Which now leaves YTL E-Solutions and Asiaspace. Where are they? What are they doing? Or, are we going to see the them hanging up their Malaysia Wimax licenses?

Well, it’s only less than 7 days now before P1 and REDtone introduces their packages, prices and other good news (I hope) to the public. I pray the wait all this while has been worth it as many are impatiently waiting for them to release this information – including me.

All this while it’s been about the technology and it’s speed – at least for P1 from the newspapers and PC Fair 2008. Consumers like myself already felt the speeds but where are the prices? I’m going to take their word for it when they said it in the article:

WiMAX service prices would be competitive, compared to what is being offered now by other broadband service providers. Prices for these range between RM60 and RM160 per month now for speeds that range from 384Kbps to 4Mbps.

I hope and expect the Malaysia Wimax monthly rates to be as competitive right of the bat. So we can all wave, kick kiss and say our farewell to TMNet Streamyx.

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Posted by dannyfoo on August 14, 2008 | Filed Under News |

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    1. Response #1 by Danny Foo on September 9th, 2008

      Thanks for the inside industry information, Aka90210. The general public would definitely not realize what’s going on.

      Well, if P1 continues to survey and deploy it looks like they’ll lead the rest of the pack later. Though the success of Wimax is still seriously being questioned by many.

    2. Response #2 by Aka90210 on September 8th, 2008

      “authorized license holders are racing to meet the end of August deadline.”

      Well – as you know, August 31 came and went. As usual in Malaysia there is a loophole for every rule. I was talking to someone in the industry today – the August 31 deadline was simply for announcing the packages and proving that they have launched *SOME* services *SOMEWHERE*.

      Solution? P1 launched their services in a measly 5-6 locations in KL. YMax has a RM200 wireless modem hung up somewhere and has probably asked some passer-by to sign up for the service for free. God knows what REDTone and Asiaspace have done – maybe a mockery of the 31 Aug deadline like YMax.

      As far as my friend knows, YMax has NOT EVEN signed contracts with their equipment suppliers!!! P1 is just surveying the next areas to cover.

    3. Response #3 by Danny Foo on August 30th, 2008

      According to the papers, I’ve to wait until some time end of this year. :(

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