Currently, the only company with last mile connection is Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM), which owns this facility through its fixed phone lines to homes and offices.
However, Green Packet, a Malaysian high tech company, will soon offer competition to TM’s Streamyx Internet service. The company has developed a product called SONmetro. This technology offers high speed, affordable wireless access to “the last mile,”
While there are other technologies for wireless broadband access, Green Packet is convinced its product offers higher speed Internet access at an affordable price. Putting its money where its mouth is, it will soon network Klang Valley to its wireless Internet facilities.
The company will start to deploy its SONmetro infrastructure next month (Aug 2006) and launch the service possibly before year-end (2006). It will extend the network to other towns in a later phase.
At the same time, Green Packet is scheduled to set up a similar wireless Internet network in Bahrain, to be followed by Saudi Arabia and Dubai next year.
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