Comments on: WiMAX, Auctions, Beauty Contests and et cetera

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:06:49 +0000

Precisely. With MiTV, whose licence was awarded through beauty contests, didn’t roll out the plan wholeheartedly

By: edifgrto

edifgrto — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:41:23 +0000

…3G spectrum holders would be side-stepped if other candidates have the capability to roll out WiMAX on concerns that they may not roll out WiMAX wholeheartedly.

This is something I personally do not get.

I just quote what I need to say about. The first paragraph is right. As to the cost of developing the previous 3G license is high. Hence, Maxis dun get the WiMAX is justifiable to me. However, not to DiGi. Dammit,… What the heck that this telco dun get it?! Just because it’s DiGi. Malaysian ashamed themselves to the world in the past as regarding to 3G story. And now, they still got balls to tell the world that… “you are foreigner company. Hence, you can’t get my cake!”

However, that paragraph is like slapping the authority(who offered the license) hard and painfully indeed. Because as you mentioned, we get nothing from the so called “wholeheartedly” powered by MiTV. It sleeping, it could just continuing to sleep like that… not doing any job at all. This is an insult to the party who gave, if and only if the party knew what insult means…

That is what I felt in this issue… From the point of why most foreigner companies go to other Asian countries. It’s not because Malaysia is not a good place to invest yet. It’s some restriction telling them off. The one who suffered at last would be the group of citizens, the rakyat that have to pay high charging fee for peanut connection speed. Oh well, I’m lucky that I could afford that so far. Me a very easy person though. =P

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:41:37 +0000

Shag: no, other countries like Spain and Sweden, and even Switzerland used the beauty contest method of awarding airwave licences. And it’s even more illogical, when you say licence is an excuse to make a quick profit. If they wanted to make profits, why not use auctions? Read above - £22.5 billion in less than 2 months, for British 3G airwaves. Is it not profitable? It was enough to half the Brit income tax for everyone for the year.

Edit, 6.43 pm : Oh… I got what you mean by profit. You mean… pocketing of profits

By: shag

shag — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:32:38 +0000

This is Malaysia, we do things differently from the rest of the world.

In this instance, licenses in the ROTW are a permit by the Govt to provide a service. In Malaysia, a license is an excuse to make a quick profit by selling the rights contained in the license to the ultimate provider. E.g. car APs & timber concessions.

In this case, Digi will ultimately have to pay a hefty sum to use the Wimax license awarded to one of the beauty contest winners.

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:04:28 +0000

Access is pronounced like ax-ass

By: The Princess

The Princess — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:03:35 +0000

I love Hashie. Join ‘The Bimbotics’, dear.

Btw, Chewxy, dude, why is it WiMAX and not WiMAC then? I don’t get it.

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:39:16 +0000

P4n6: Thanks for the info

Net_cow: I don’t think TT dotCom has the infrastructures, so they’d either have to - rent, or prepare. DiGi has the infrastructure ready though

By: net_cow

net_cow — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:14:17 +0000

“As far as I know TT has completed the tender process recently to a vendor to help them to deploy the 3G network. ”
How many middleman we need to pass through? Talks about cost passing to the customers.And i thought TT should have everything (partner deployment, etc) under their creditability documents during the bidding process for the 3G?Bleh just asking terms that im not clear about.

By: p4n6

p4n6 — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:29:42 +0000

As far as I know TT has completed the tender process recently to a vendor to help them to deploy the 3G network.

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:19:18 +0000

Something like that. They’re in a “corporate and technology restructuring exercise” (fancy terms for “we’re losing money, so we’re kicking some people out”). According to mi3G.net, they are in the process of hiring, but if you ask me, it looks shoddy. Showing their office workers having lunch in some public event isn’t a good way to impress people.
TT.com also isn’t really doing anything with their 3G license awarded - talk about not deploying their services wholeheartedly