Internet Broadband Quality: Where are we?

Malaysia was ranked a poor 48 out of 66 countries for Internet broadband quality in a study conducted by Oxford University and sponsored by Cisco.
• The global study on broadband quality conducted by Oxford’s Said Business School listed Malaysia among countries which had Internet speeds which were “below today’s applications threshold.”
• DAP’s Lim Kit Siang described the study as confirmation of Malaysia’s unchecked plunge in international IT competitiveness. “Internationally, broadband quality has moved from one of penetration, i.e. who had broadband connection and who did not, to broadband speed but Malaysia is till bogged down in the initial stage.

(The Malaysian Insider)

On the latest news, it is understood that Pernec Corp, a unit of Permodalan Nasional Bhd, is talking with WiMAX operators - Green Packet, REDtone and Asiaspace - to rollout WiWi, a hybrid WiMAX-WiFi wireless router in the country.
• Pernec managing director Shaharom Md Shariff said the company expects a commercial
roll-out the of the WiWi products by year end.
• "There's interest for WiWi. We have started a pilot project. We are working with Mimos,the technology owner to carry out this pilot project. We already putting some 100 sets for Mimos to distribute to prospective customers." (BT)

I bet most of the Malaysians agree with this, ISPs should either reduce the current broadband fees or upgrade the internet bandwidth atleast 2Mbps (in term of worst case)> Hopefully the emerging wireless ISP will create the competition among them to improve the Malaysia broadband.