Faster streamyx broadband on the way?

TM as a company so far has dragged its legs in providing reasonable broadband service for Malaysia. But as an investment, their opportunities are endless. So far, they've gotten themselves in a hole by not anticipating the demand of current users by signing up more than their bandwidth can handle. The speed is almost unbearable at times. But read this from the Business Times:

Zamzamzairani added that

the emergence of wireless broadband service provider, such as the WiMAX players and mobile phone operators, would not be a threat to its fixed-line broadband business, like HSBB services and Streamyx.

"I believe that people in the office or at home would still prefer to surf the Internet using fixed-line. Wireless broadband will be useful for those who are on-the-go," he said.

Meanwhie, the Asia America Gateway (AAG) cable - in the consortium of which TM has a stake in, will be operational in August.

"Once the cable comes on stream, it will make Malaysia attractive for content providers to host here, to provide services to their customers in the region," Zamzamzairani said.

The AAG is a high-bandwidth fibre-optic submarine cable system linking Southeast Asia to the US. Other ope-rators in the AAG consortium include AT&T in the US, Australia's Telstra, India's Bharti and Telkom Indonesia.

So we can hopefully expect faster broadband come the end of the year. I hope the gateway really helps and we get the broadband we pay for. This project is well behind schedule. So at least TM has something coming in the pipeline for broadband relief.