Consumer Internet Services in Malaya
DIALUP/ ISDN | DSL | WIRELESS
DIALUP / ISDN
BACKGROUNDER
The first ISP in Malaysia is JARING (acronym for Joint Advanced Research Integrated NetworkinG),
the Internet arm of MIMOS, a government technological research agency.
It provides 56kbps dialup and leased line services. This was quickly
followed by Telekom Malaysia's TMNet. Until the year
2000 these two companies were the only choices of ISP that the
Malaysian consumer had. There were (and still are) two separate charges
when using dialup - a call charge by the fixed line phone services
provider (basically Telekom Malaysia) and the ISP charge by either
TMnet
or JARING. In 2000, Maxis Communications started offering free dialup
services to
the general public. The only catch was that it was not really 'free' as
the service could only be accessed via local numbers and at the rate
Telekom Malaysia was charging for local calls, it was even more
expensive than TMNet and JARING. TIME Telecom, DiGi, and Celcom later
followed suit in offering this 'free' service. These telcos have since
stopped the services - Maxis was the first to go; the last was TIME.
AVAILABILITY
Basically available where fixed phone line services are available
SPEEDS
The typical speeds achievable through dialup range between 44kbps to
53kbps. Where repeaters are used by Telekom Malaysia, speeds are
generally limited to 28.8kbps.
CHARGES
JARING
1) RM5.00 per month for 600 minutes access + 200MB email
2) RM20.00 per month for 1200 minutes access + 500MB email
- Additional usage is charged at 1 sen per minute
- For either package, 1.5 sen is additionally charged by Telekom
Malaysia for access through 1515, local call charges apply if accessing
through alternate numbers
TMNet
1) RM10.00 per month for 1200 minutes access + anti spam package + email + 1 hour access to Streamyx hotspot
2) RM10.00 per month for 1000 minutes access + anti spam & anti porn packages + email + 1 hour access to Streamyx hotspot
- Additional usage is charged at 1 sen per minute
- For either package, 1.5 sen is additionally charged by Telekom
Malaysia for access through 1515, local call charges apply if accessing
through alternate numbers