WIMAX Malaysia 2.3, 2.5 and 3.5Ghz
Recently Malaysia decided that by 2010 the targeted broadband penetration for the country will be 50% instead of the 75% envisaged under MyIMCS886. Hopefully this can be achieved soon. If Malaysia is serious about making broadband available to everyone, the government should give a WIMAX license to Digi since it has lots of cash to deploy the necessary infrastructure to bring this new technology to the mainstream.

In Singapore, as of August 2007, Qmax has begun commercialising its WIMAX broadband. Number Portability and other 5 players who receive their WBA license should be up and running by June 2008.

I do agree with the NST commentator that while Malaysia is trying to adopt policies like Look East Policies to adopt the best practices in the developed world, perhaps we should learn a thing or 2 from our little neighbour downsouth. In this way we can have the best of both worlds. The first few things we can start is efficiency, cleanliness and talent retention. Only through constant improvement and learning can one country succeed and make progress. E commerce in Malaysia is still at its infancy and this goes for making most services accessible online.

In this globalised world, capital markets are increasingly accessible and currently SGX has almost 1/3 of its listed company that are of foreign origin. An amusing point i wish to highlight is recently I receive and email from a person in Europe. The European have a misconception that Singapore is part of China. But in the future this remark might not just bring us a little smile, in fact this is already happening, Singapore is attracting many Chinese company to list in the SGX and its current market capitalisation is around SGD 700 b. Singapore policy is to become a financial hub for the ASEAN region and to attract talents from around the world. In its quest to reach a population of 6.5m by 2030, a 0.5% influx of ASEAN population would help it reach the goal.

2.3 Ghz
YTL E
Greenpacket
Redtone CNX
Asiaspace

Time 2.5 only
Jaring 2.5 only
Nasioncom 3.5 only

2.5 and 3.5 Ghz
Maxis
TM
Airzed under Opcomm
EB Tech
Atlasone