Broadband penetration set to increase in Malaysia
Malaysia is far, far behind other countries in terms of usage of broadband. If the usage of broadband is any indication for future success of a country, the future looks kind of bleak for this aspiring country in Southeast Asia, although, apparently, penetration rose to about 2% currently from a negligible basis a few years back. This is set to change, if all goes according to Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik, as the government introduced a National Broadband Plan. It is envisioned that peentration will grow to 10% by 2008.
Support will be given by the government.
- Special tax incentives special tax relief for small and medium-scale industries and facilitating access to affordable financing facilities for Internet service providers (ISPs).
- By 2006, about 900 government departments would benefit from improved bandwidth throughout the 84,000 broadband connections.
- On completion of the SchoolNet programme this year, five million schoolchildren in all 10,000 schools will benefit from broadband access. They will be able to access educational content, applications and collaborative learning developed earlier under the Smart School project.
- Research institutions and public universities will have 74,000 broadband connections to gain access and collaborate with research and development institutions locally and internationally.
- About 4,000 hospitals and clinics were expected to be fully wired with broadband infrastructure by the end of 2006, and broadband connections would be provided to 800 libraries nationwide.
A good start - let's hope that this continues. However, what is also needed is an increased speed of the connection, and the ususual thing - execution, execution, execution. How often is it that people complain to editors of newspapers about frustratingly long waiting periods for their connections to be installed, or other handicapping problems.
Support will be given by the government.
- Special tax incentives special tax relief for small and medium-scale industries and facilitating access to affordable financing facilities for Internet service providers (ISPs).
- By 2006, about 900 government departments would benefit from improved bandwidth throughout the 84,000 broadband connections.
- On completion of the SchoolNet programme this year, five million schoolchildren in all 10,000 schools will benefit from broadband access. They will be able to access educational content, applications and collaborative learning developed earlier under the Smart School project.
- Research institutions and public universities will have 74,000 broadband connections to gain access and collaborate with research and development institutions locally and internationally.
- About 4,000 hospitals and clinics were expected to be fully wired with broadband infrastructure by the end of 2006, and broadband connections would be provided to 800 libraries nationwide.
A good start - let's hope that this continues. However, what is also needed is an increased speed of the connection, and the ususual thing - execution, execution, execution. How often is it that people complain to editors of newspapers about frustratingly long waiting periods for their connections to be installed, or other handicapping problems.
posted by Andreas @ 12:03 pm
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