Malaysia national telecom provider, Telekom Malaysia (TM), pours millions into promotional campaigns to make the local populace aware that TM is at the forefront of cutting edge communications technology and thus providing its subsequent high-tech services to the main stream consumers...........
How blessed are we then..........or not?
I was a bit dumbfounded last week when I witnessed this scene............TM's mechanics busily working at a manhole............
Cool enough I thought..........guys must be installing/fixing some fibre optics technology cables that runs along the sewers...................but ohoooh, hold on,........does that bunch of cables look like fibre optics? Definitely not......a mish mash of multi-coloured copper wires strung together in one messy bunch..............geeeeeeeeeh, what's up here?
The foreman explained to me that there were some hiccups regarding the comms service in the area and now they were doing a check-up and performing eventual any repair duties as a result of the checks. How in God's name do they figure their way out of this mesh of telephone wiring?
It seems they perfectly know well what they are doing, trial and error I guess, but then again, I'm pretty confident that they know how to deal with prehistoric items when high-tech gizmo's fail us again..........
Beats me, but at least the telco guys don't mind getting dirty whilst doing the job and they are at least wise enough to cover themselves from the glaring sun with a big umbrella..............wise men indeed.
So now I know that all the hype regarding high speed broadband access is just a big loads of whallops (no wonder that my internet access is agonizingly slooooow).................using their current technology on hand ain't a reflection of their promising campaign...........might happen in my lifetime though........crossing my fingers............
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