Official channels did not always provide us the information we needed, neither did customer service channels, websites or printed materials. Hence, we researched and compiled data in order to get the end result you see. We provide this data on a “best effort” basis, although what you are seeing is the byproduct of many-many man hours of research and tedious data compilation from an army of interns and professionals.

Accuracy
Although this data is from the companies themselves, there might have been errors in the conversion and transposing it onto the map, hence it is presented as possibly inaccurate, and for all we know, more than half could be wrong. Please use this as an indicative guide only.

Sources:

Jaring Wireless Broadband
Coverage Area Data Acquisition Difficulty Rating : 1 / 5 (Repetitive)

Despite their limited coverage areas, Jaring provided the best visualization, accuracy and information on their services from their website at this link : http://www.jaring.my/broadband/wireless_area.html

We were easily able to plot their broadband data coverage onto our map, as they had a digital map that showed the coverage areas, as well as a system that enabled us to jump directly to areas of our choice. However, the lack of an overview of all the coverage areas prompted us to have to stitch together each individual image tile by tile, a process that took roughly about 50 man-hours.

Streamyx Broadband
This was probably the most inconvenient of all, involving recategorizing, retyping, and having to cross reference maps of Malaysia. Here are the steps we took:
Difficulty Rating 5/5 – Tedious, Time-consuming, Confusing, Frustrating

1. Extract
We took the coverage data from the following URL: http://www.tm.net.my/tmnet2006/contents/products-services/streamyx-service-area.cfm
The bad data visualization required us to do a lot of work in order to come up with a map. Please see notes at the end of the process.

2. Arrange data into categories, Finding locations
This data was not arranged contextually – Tropicana was listed right before Ukay Heights, Menara Amcorp and Menara Summit were listed right after each other. We arranged them by state. This process involved lots of cutting and pasting, using spreadsheets to separate the data into a more coherent format.

3. Cross reference third party sources
We used Google Earth, MalSingMaps, IrqNine’s Google Earth Placemarks, Malaysia Central’s GIS, and various printed maps to determine coverage areas. This was a very time consuming process, because we had to match area names to areas on a very wide map, with no district names provided. This process involved basically taking the street/building names, Googling/finding it on a third party map, then after that, determining the location of the name on the map.

4. We approximated based on educated assumptions
Based on the areas officially mentioned as covered, we created a 5KM radius around the officially mentioned areas. Technically, all DSLAMs have a 5KM radius of coverage – based on the pattern you will notice they are quite evenly spaced. Over time we aim to refine this general circular shapes into a more definitive pattern to represent true coverage. Please see notes – we assume a more positive (wider) coverage for this service providers coverage.

Additional Notes.
1.. Some we had to omit completely due to entries without context, for example, the coverage details mentions that an “Ayamas” is covered. However, it does not specify which road or which city this Ayamas outlet is located, whether it is the Ayamas headquarters, a particular Ayamas outlet, or all Ayamas outlets.
2. A lot of street names were given without context, eg, Section 16 – which could have been anywhere, and we needed to Google to check.
2. Where we were unsure, we chose to go for the more positive interpretation of the coverage (wider), in the hope that it would be corrected as time goes along, rather than omit it. For example, “Balakong” is mentioned as a Streamyx service area. While we could assume the whole area of Balakong is covered on the map, this is not necessarily so.
3. Some areas which are not mentioned are actually covered – we added in the ones we know through personal experience or through verifications from friends and partners.