Well, I don’t know what else to call these, so I’ll just call them “exchange boxes” for now. These are the things that are in front of your row of houses, if you live in a house. They are green in colour, at least in my part of the woods – TM and their contractors may use different shaped, sized and coloured boxes depending on the location, but I would guess that they would be consistent and use the same box – it can’t be cheap manufacturing these boxes. There’s also a TM logo on the boxes itself. The TM contractors are busy pulling those fibre cables where I live (and boy, are those fibre cables thin, compared to the bulk that are the old copper wires which our telephone line still uses!). The capacity of these fibre cables are also many many times that of the copper wires.
The process is quite simple – TM will engage a contractor to plant these boxes in your housing area, and the contractor will then pull the fibre cables which are connected to some sort of telephone exchange. They then test it, and once everything is OK, hand them over to Kedai Telekom who will “do their thing”. Once a customer decides to sign up, another contractor will be despatched to your house, to pull another set of fibre cables from this exchange box into your house – every house has to be wired individually, I was told.
So, if you suddenly see these green coloured boxes in your housing area, chances are you’re being wired for TM’s High Speed Broadband (HSBB)! Wow, I can’t wait to test out my 50Mbps line – imagine – I can probably download all of the internet in a week, and then I can retire from this business for good :P
so nice….and be a lucky one.
in my area , certain place still not even got streamyx support…..
need to use the wireless ( unstable… ) broadband…expensive and unstable…
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
@Andy, most often when there is no Streamyx support the area falls under another operator, for example, Maxis?
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haha … look so similar to Tong Sampah … see how long TM will take to cover in whole of Klang Valley … or perharp Whole KL first … haha
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 4:33 am
@YellowMan, LOL I don’t know what the tong sampah in your area looks like, but mine looks nothing like that!
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some areas its located at the telekom pole… its a white box.. so far i saw it in Subang n Bangsar… others not really sure yet.. as for maxis, they have certain areas doing fiber to the home trial..
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 4:37 am
@j.kEi, snap some pictures to share so we can see what they look like la!
. I think for condos they may be located at the telephone poles?
As for Maxis FTTH, I’m not sure if many of us can afford it when it is launched!
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more info on HSBB –
http://www.tm.com.my/connecting-you/digital-lifestyle/hsbb/Pages/HSBBHome.aspx
HSBB coverage area and expected dates
http://www.tm.com.my/connecting-you/digital-lifestyle/hsbb/Pages/is-hsbb-available.aspx
http://www.tm.com.my/connecting-you/digital-lifestyle/hsbb/Pages/faq.aspx
item Number 17 is interesting
# 17. If I am paying for 10Mbps will I get 10Mbps speed?
TM will ensure that customers will receive no less than 90% of the subscribed level, 95% of the time for purposes of uploading and downloading for connections locally.
i wonder what the rates would be like
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 4:46 am
@readycompanies, as usual, guarantees of speed are only to locally hosted websites, which is a common practice worldwide I think…
But when connecting to overseas sites the speed could be around 5% of the line speed la, hahahahah!!
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rustum Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
you are right – pnly for local connections !
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 8th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
@rustum, this is how we’ve always been selling broadband here, and I don’t think it will change…
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50Mbps for connection to Utusan, Berita Harian, JARING FTP server, perhaps.
Overseas? Dream on!
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 4:40 am
@LEDFreak, yep I’m looking forward to accessing Utusan @ 50Mbps, woohoo!!!
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LEDFreak Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Cheeky!
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 8th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
@LEDFreak,
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Kent Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Agree!
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I think its called ‘fiber cabinet’ ie just like the old rocket cabinet for copper cables. There shud also be one behind your house (or nearby) and its called ‘fiber dp’ or fiber distribution point’
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 8th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
@anordin, ya ka? I don’t know la, I am not an expert by any means in this matter!
That’s why I simply hantam with the description la…
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Hopefully it fire proof, who knows if got somebody geram as speed like siput go n torch the box
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 9th, 2010 at 12:05 am
@PIPSGuy, I heard it’s bomb proof
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that what it called Pedestal..
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 20th, 2010 at 10:18 am
@ftth, hmmm…that sounds like the pedestal in my bathroom!
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i dun have this in front of my house. my house using hsbb currently
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 20th, 2010 at 10:18 am
@lonewolf, I think they may look different – I’ve been told some are attached to the TM boxes that you see around housing estates…
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nope.none of that around my housing areas either
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:30 pm
@lonewolf, hhmmm…that is interesting indeed!
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I live in TTDI area in KL and one of the few lucky one selected for the Telekom HSBB trial (20 MIB). I have only one comment…..It is fast, not only fast it is super fast and it is class above the streamyx I had
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:49 pm
@very good, woah, now we know where all that bandwidth from Streamyx went to!
Jealous!
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Just curious for TM to install these facilities within condos and apartment, are they supposed to negotiate on monthly fee to be paid to Management Corporation funds of the condos or apartments?
Are there any other service providers offering these?
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
April 14th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
@checker, I doubt it. That would be too greedy, I think!
If the residents discover that they don’t have HSBB because their management company was holding TM to ransom over it, what do you think will happen to the management company, since it is supposed to be working for the residents? 
Different condos may have different service providers. Timedotcom supplies broadband to condos in the Mont Kiara area. I think there are other providers as well.
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