Tdc has long been under the shadow of national telco company, Telekom Malaysia, where fixed-line services are concerned, but the impressive demonstrations showed today – where upload/download speeds of 50Mbps were displayed – could very well change that scenario.
Subscription packages feature speeds ranging from 2Mbps to 24Mbps, with prices starting at RM99 per month. They’re also introducing a new “Boost” concept, where for 15 or 30 hours per month, users can get speeds up to 50Mbps.
The only caveat to all this? Its limited coverage. With city regulations and administration red-tape, it’s not been a speedy process for Tdc in rolling out its end-to-end fibre optic network. Currently, only high-rise buildings that have more than five floors in Kuala Lumpur’s city centre and Mont’Kiara (KL’s Beverly Hills, to put some perspective) enjoy this service. It has no plans to bring this service to landed home properties at the moment due to its high cost and labour in laying fibre to the last inch.
At launch, Tdc said that 30,000 premises are wired-up for its service, and plans to roll out the network to suburban areas within the Klang Valley and Penang over the coming year.
Tdc, however, won’t be making a play into the IPTV space despite carrying out a six-month trial during which high-definition content from subscription TV service provider Astro was delivered to selected homes.
“It was only an experiment to see what people would do with such a high connectivity speed, but we have no plans to go into content. We merely provide the high-quality pipes to deliver content,” said its CEO Afzal Abdul Rahim.
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