To the MAX?

By Pakac Luteb

The Star had an article saying it's simply too expensive to bring
Highspeed Broadband (HSBB) to rural areas.

Is that true? Malaysia has satellite technology, can't it be used for broadband?

There is also a technology called WiMAX that is similar to the WiFi
that people use in Starbucks and other locations.

However, unlike WiFi, WiMAX can cover very large areas at broadband speed.

A few WiMAX locations would suffice to cover the whole of the Klang Valley.

Can't WiMAX bring highspeed broadband to rural areas?

please see my earlier writing about WiMAX, below in quotation marks.

Regarding the "War of the Tonys" the jibes between the heads of
AirAsia and Tiger Airways, it's disappointing that Tony Fernandes of
AirAsia has made stereotypical and racist remarks.

With his comments, Tony Fernandes has shown his true stripes and his
lack of maturity.

Tony Fernandes has been a role model, a Malaysian success story, but
with his comments and spending (wasting) money on a silly
advertisement, the shine of that role model has been tarnished.

What kind of people can we expect our children to become, when they
grow up hearing the stereotypical racist or misogynist remarks of
business leaders and politicians?

Malaysians are very tolerant people but I urge Malaysians to strongly
condemn such remarks rather than tolerate them.

Pakac Luteb

"is this:

http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=25078

a huge waste of money in view of this:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20040122-3323.html

??

doesn't malaysia already have a lot of communications infrastructure
that wimax could be added to, to bring broadband to everywhere?

if not, why not just a few fibre cables and microwave links, feeding
data to wimax? bringing fibre directly to the user would be much more
costly."