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In other news,

TM Bhd and 16 other telecommunications carriers, mostly based in South-East Asia, have signed an agreement to build a US$500mil (RM1.75bil) undersea fibre-optic cable linking the region to the United States.

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The cable route will avoid the Pacific Ocean’s “Ring of Fire,” seismically and volcanically active regions along tectonic plate boundaries, but will pass less active tectonic plate boundaries in South-East Asia, Zamzamzairani said.

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Zamzamzairani said the cable would increase add TM’s data capacity by 60Gbps from the current 75Gbps. The additional capacity could be used to improve the Internet experience for TM Net customers, or distributed to TM subsidiary companies in the region, he said.

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Well, looks like a glimmer of hope for us with crap connection. While the news of the planning for the said cable has been around for a few weeks, it’s now official and I think we can look forward to better broadband for Malaysians.

My greatest wish, with the advent of this new cable network, is that they’d quit with the traffic shaping and bittorrent throttling.

I just hope that this would be money worth spending. RM1.75 billion is no small amount.

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Oh hey, whaddaya know? It’s The Silent Room’s third anniversary! Happy Birthday! I have a little surprise in the making, heheh.