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This website is an initiative to improve Malaysia’s broadband facilities. It contains a broadband coverage map, articles on Malaysia broadband, comparisions of internet service providers and feature articles.

Redesign Malaysia is an initiative to improve Malaysia's broadband internet penetration, quality and reliability.We aim to achieve this through the compilation of relevant news articles, allowing users to have a voice, enlightening consumers on the options that are available, providing comparative statistics on ISPs, as well as the production of special features and commentary.


It is designed to be a community effort, to utilize information and feedback from broadband users and potential customers across Malaysia. We also aim to gain cooperation from the various broadband players in Malaysia, as well as support from government agencies and regulators.


Currently, we are focused on the Klang Valley, however in time we aim to expand this initiative nationwide. Let's all collaborate - to make fast, cheap and efficient broadband available throughout Malaysia.



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How can Advertlets.com and RedesignMalaysia.com help make broadband here better?
by Josh Lim
April 15 2007 || 11:43 am
News Articles RedesignMalaysia.com TM Net TM Jaring Maxis DiGi Time dotCom NasionCom Streamyx Broadband Heroes Advertlets.com Advertlets

Hi guys - sorry, there hasn’t been much updates these few days. We’ve been very busy on another project (which is relevant to this site, more details in a bit). Yes, we’re still arranging interviews with the WiMax winners (good question suggestions!) - most are keen to be interviewed, but its hard to find available dates. We will keep you posted.

As some of you might have noticed, there’s a new thing in the local blogosphera and it’s called Advertlets.com. Besides being made by the same team behind RedesignMalaysia.com, here’s why its interesting: It’ll help you make money with your blog…its good for advertisers to reach a market that watches increasingly less tv, listens to less radio, and doesn’t read much of the papers. And yes - it’s not just by the same team behind RedesignMalaysia, these projects are affiliated.

Thanks to one of our volunteers (a charming and intelligent MIT graduate!), and the work of our team, we have managed to compile, match and process a list of IP address ranges from virtually all Malaysian ISPs, including: TM Net, DiGi Internet Exchange, NasionCom, MaxisNet, Airzed, Time Telekom, NTT MSC / Arc Net, Jaring / MIMOS (MIX), CNX Solutions, EB Technologies, Bizsurf, and more. With these IP range addresses, we can detect which ISP site visitors are using. You can read more on how its used with Advertlets here.

Why is this great for RedesignMalaysia.com?
1. We know what ISP you are using - and can measure popularity of ISPs.
2. In future, when this IP address database becomes larger, and we can geolocate more effectively (eg whether IPs are from Kelana Jaya or Ampang)…we can recommend you the best ISP available for your area - automatically, just by detecting your IP and matching it with other visitors in the area. This can be a combination of consumer ratings (manually submitted by the users), and also automatic speed tests of visitors accessing this site (logging in their page load time, area they are in and ISP used)

Why is this great for Advertlets.com?
1. To deliver targeted advertising to Malaysians only (so advertisers don’t waste their budget, and make their message count to the right people.).
2. To deliver relevant advertising to bloggers based on where they are - making it better for the bloggers and their visitors, and better click through rates for the advertisers due to more relevance.

So, what can RedesignMalaysia and Advertlets do together? (Please add your suggestions via the comments box)
These are a few of the ideas we have:

1. Allow all ISPs in Malaysia besides TMNet Streamyx, to target unhappy TMNet Streamyx Users based on IP - and advertise to them, encouraging them to switch ISPs! , spurring competition and allowing them to compete with Streamyx’s massive advertising budget. Eg, you browse a blog…then you notice a relevant advertisement (based on where you are): “Dear consumer, your connection speed could be 2.5x faster. would you like to try a better broadband service available in your area, Petaling Jaya?”.
2. In real time, monitor the performance of ALL ISPs in Malaysia, and which perform the best in your area (all visitors have to do is access this website and RedesignMalaysia can calculate it automatically)
3. ISPs can use the Advertlets Poll to find out more about what their consumers and potential customers want. Eg, is there demand for 2MBps broadband? How much would you pay for it? For a sample of the poll system, take a look at the “WHO ARE YOU” poll on the right hand side, or go to the Advertlets homepage (it’s on the right sidebar).
4. High traffic bloggers can help advertise the ISP that they are using on their blogs, and get a discount on their monthly broadband access charges.
5. Bloggers can choose to display RedesignMalaysia.com advertising (for free, we don’t have much funding at RedesignMalaysia…), if they have remaining ad space that is unsold. Kind of like how Google shows Public Service Announcements if there are no paying keywords matched to your blog. So, when you’re not earning money, you’re helping raise awareness on how bad broadband is here. Sign up on and drop me a line if you’re up for that kind of advertising and activism!

Let us know, thanks!

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April 15 2007 || 11:43 am
Advertlets.com » Putting the ‘bling’ in ‘blogging’ » Article » Advertlets.com and the fight for better broadband in Malaysia said..comment

[…] I’m quite sure as a blogger, or even as a normal consumer, that you have been somewhat dissatisfied with the state of broadband in Malaysia. Whether in terms of speed, or broadband penetration in general (only 2.8% of Malaysians have broadband internet access at home), or customer service. I’ll like you to add your suggestions on how the Advertlets.com network & RedesignMalaysia.com can help improve broadband here. […]

April 15 2007 || 11:43 am
encik wan said..comment

Josh, I understand you want the answer(s) on how to improve broadband services in Malaysia. IMHO, it is a classical chicken and egg problem. Improvements on broadband infrastructure are not viable commerically if the extra demands can not recover inital capital investments. Demands for broadband can not be improved if the exisiting broadband services are bad/expensive or there is alternatives, e.g. TV, print media. The only way to solve this problem is to break the deadlock. My suggestion is to increase demands substantially.
1. Malaysia government subsidises PC and broadband services heavily. When the costs of broadband services are insignificant , then broadband will be adopted by general public and can be a viable delivery channel in Malaysia.
2. Give substantial tax incentives to Malaysia businesses that are involved in outsourcing services for overseas customers. Outsourcing businesses required good broadband services. This will improve broadband demands. Tax incentives will encourage more Malaysia businesses to expand to overseas markets.

April 15 2007 || 11:43 am
yipguseng said..comment

i would suggest TM to first improve our phone cable quality before even saying to have a great broadband service.
i had a constant disconnection everyday, i would say not even 1 day i have a smooth connection after 2 - 3 years of the broadband subscription. Used to call this ISP’s Customer Service for help but in the end it turn out to be nothing in the end. Well, at least there’s still once where i get the answer there my phone cable at my area is not good or too old. FYI, i live in SS2 Petaling Jaya, and they asked me to refer to TM rather then them. And up till now i haven’t call them to confirm on the cable thingy because if really working on this, it would probably cause me the whole day to wait for them to check and fix which i do not really have a whole day during weekday as i have to work. Weekend..is off days.. so my problem still remain unsolved up till now

April 15 2007 || 11:43 am
JQ said..comment

I expect the government to open up the broadband service and improve the speed.Give us the options to choice instead of just relying TM alone for broadband service.Streamyx is just not fast now and recently there have been too many disconnection in JB.If the government is pushing for so-call E-Government asking us to file our taxes through the net then give us a fast and reliable one.When i think of broadband in malaysia, i am just too angry.Let hope some big guys notice it and do something fast about it.

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