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famiLEE LEEgime's myth of Excellent Efficient city infrastructure is falling apart and truth is revealing itself. We lag behind many many other cities and countries in terms of the standard. Not just our Internet.
Our telcos are fucked not just one fibre cable TV are fucked, mobile calls are fucked in terms of coverage & prices, mobile broadband are fucked in coverage and bandwidth & even functionality in many cases. Our Mobile TV broadcast past away (TV-mobile) digital broadcast DVB & DBA still-birth.
Our MRT fucked badly, roads flooded, ERP sucks, COE craps, SBS & other busses are on fire and in flame on the roads. Taxi drivers are fighting passenger and both going to courts.:*: Even pedestrain crossing had death traps.
The TODAY 135th report is not quite reflecting the truth. The installation on even HDB estate blocks are slow & non-systematic. They fibre up the adjecent block but not 4 other blocks including my. They did a bit here and stopped, a bit there and abandoned again. They ran into troubles which they can not solve.
When Ass Loong was finance minister he spent $750M on this, today finance minister changed and changed. This project still not done - in the super efficient red dot.
IDA blames OpenNet but they are a big failure themselve.:(
IDA lack a general digital network plan which is National Scale, that is something to replace all the outdated analog systems:
What they had done is very limited, the OpenNet is merely 1 ISP. They way they LongPang cable ducts with Singtel does not provide a robost fail-over capable fault-tolerant national network. There are too much redundency and duplications on fibre networking in red dot as well as there are too many unpatch (un-considered) big holes. 3G/4G mobile for example should sit on top of this platform and this have to be serveral times bigger than the existing OpenNet. It should be so well laid and fault-tolerant and secure to be military fit. It need to be so good that SG communications can not be easily taken out by air-raid attacking telephone exchanges, that it re-route and by-pass damaged spots, and unless 500 locations got bombed we are not knocked out. Within the network tiers of encryption divide security levels, and encryption tunnels serves sensitive services e.g. miltary govt & banking.
IDA also seriously lack a national IPV6 plan. IPV4 is dead globally as of last year. IDA sit on it dead ass on too many cricial national infocomm needs. Dragging their feet to own casket.
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http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120228-0000062/OpenNet-in-a-tangle-over-NGNBN-roll-out
OpenNet in a tangle over NGNBN roll-out
Infocomm Development Authority takes broadband consortium to task over unsatisfactory performance
by Tan Weizhen
04:46 AM Feb 28, 2012
SINGAPORE - The target set was for 95 per cent of the country to be wired up for the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN) by the middle of this year.
But with less than four months to go, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has stepped in due to the unsatisfactory performance of OpenNet, the company which was tasked to install and activate high-speed fibre broadband in homes and offices here.
While the 95-per-cent target is still on track - as of last month, the coverage was more than 86 per cent - concerns over operational issues have emerged and these were laid out by the IDA in a press conference yesterday: Among other things, the excessive waiting time for activation of fibre services, unsatisfactory response to increasing demand, delays in installations in commercial buildings and unreasonable pricing.
IDA deputy chief executive officer Leong Keng Thai said: "There is no excuse for OpenNet to not have been more proactive in managing challenges in the deployment of the network. Certainly, they can improve."
In 2008, when OpenNet was selected to support the network roll-out, it was also offered a grant of up to S$750 million by the Government.
Given the issues that have plagued the roll out by OpenNet, the IDA brought forward by a year a scheduled review of the performance of the company, which has undergone leadership changes, in addition to other internal issues.
And the results did little to put OpenNet - a consortium led by Axia NetMedia Corporation, with SingTel, Singapore Press Holdings and SP Telecommunications the other members - in a positive light.
To address its concerns, the IDA has now issued certain requirements to OpenNet, which it must meet by July.
Nevertheless, Mr Leong noted that there were problems "beyond OpenNet's control", such as uncooperative commercial building owners. Most of the problems with these owners have been resolved, he said.
"So as things clear up and if we find that more and more issues are related to OpenNet's operations, then yes, this may warrant regulatory action," he said.
According to IDA, regulatory measures could include the drawing up of a code and quality of service requirement which, if flouted, could attract statutory penalties such as fines.
OpenNet's woes started early last year when it faced a spate of customer complaints over delays in getting connected.
In April last year, StarHub - one of seven operating companies under the NGNBN - threatened a lawsuit, saying that OpenNet contractors had damaged its cables in some customers' homes while laying fibre-optic cables.
A month later, IDA fined the company for failing to test cables to ensure that they work.
OpenNet said it is reviewing IDA's requirements and it will continue to work closely with the authority.
OpenNet director for business development of communications Daniel Ho said: "Currently, OpenNet is working with its key sub-contractor to adjust its capacity on a more permanent basis."
Responding to Today, Mr Leong pointed out that the selection of the operator was done "through an open competitive process".
OpenNet was selected based on its competitive pricing and its offer of a "speedy and extensive network coverage".
Mr Leong said: "Although there are operational areas that need improvement in terms of OpenNet's service offerings, these are not related to the selection process."
He also reiterated that the issues being addressed in the review "goes beyond" the 95-per-cent coverage target.
As of last month, more than 86 per cent of the country has wired for the NGNBN, and connections were activated for 100,000 subscribers, of which residential customers accounted for 86,800.
Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC MP Penny Low, who sits on the Government Parliamentary Committee for Information, Communications and the Arts, said yesterday that the "much-awaited" NGNBN roll-out has, so far, "not been the easiest or smoothest".
Whether the IDA should have intervened earlier "depends on what exactly happened in each case and the number of (complaints) received", Ms Low said. Still, she reiterated that the IDA "needs to step in to ensure that our national plan remains on target". Additional reporting by Cheow Xinyi
Telcos deny new ISP's claim about NGNBN
by Tan Weizhen
SINGAPORE - The three telcos here - M1, SingTel and StarHub - have denied claims made by a new Internet service provider that they are discouraging their customers from moving to the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN).
In a report published in the Singapore Business Review magazine, the new provider, MyRepublic, claimed that while the three telcos offer the NGNBN - an ultra-high speed fibre-optic network - they do not promote it and do not offer the service at its full potential.
StarHub vice-president of home solutions Iris Wee has described MyRepublic's allegations as "irresponsible". "Our fibre broadband plans and promotions are prominently advertised on our website, shop front and retail advertisements," Ms Wee said in an email to the magazine.
A SingTel spokesman said the telco "has been actively promoting fibre services since the launch of the NGNBN". "Our customers have responded well to our wide range of fibre services, and we are grateful to have more than 55,000 users come on board so far, which is more than 50 per cent share of the market," the spokesman told Today.
M1's chief technical officer Patrick Scodeller pointed out that it was the first operator here to offer NGNBN services in September 2010.
"... Since the launch of our fibre services, we have not placed any caps on the international bandwidth across all our service plans, including those with speeds above 100 Mbps," he told Today.
"M1 does not have any legacy broadband networks nor infrastructure, hence, there is no basis to the claim made that we do not promote NGNBN services," he added.
The Infocomm Development Authority said it does not regulate the companies' advertising efforts. "How they promote (the NGNBN) is up to the company," spokeswoman Melanie Koh said. Alvin Chong
Our telcos are fucked not just one fibre cable TV are fucked, mobile calls are fucked in terms of coverage & prices, mobile broadband are fucked in coverage and bandwidth & even functionality in many cases. Our Mobile TV broadcast past away (TV-mobile) digital broadcast DVB & DBA still-birth.
Our MRT fucked badly, roads flooded, ERP sucks, COE craps, SBS & other busses are on fire and in flame on the roads. Taxi drivers are fighting passenger and both going to courts.:*: Even pedestrain crossing had death traps.
The TODAY 135th report is not quite reflecting the truth. The installation on even HDB estate blocks are slow & non-systematic. They fibre up the adjecent block but not 4 other blocks including my. They did a bit here and stopped, a bit there and abandoned again. They ran into troubles which they can not solve.
When Ass Loong was finance minister he spent $750M on this, today finance minister changed and changed. This project still not done - in the super efficient red dot.
IDA blames OpenNet but they are a big failure themselve.:(
IDA lack a general digital network plan which is National Scale, that is something to replace all the outdated analog systems:
- Singtel's fix line copper network - should be phased out, dug out & recycle the copper, free up lands occupied by the exchanges.
- All analog AM/FM PAL TV broadcast to be phased out
- Multi-level fibre back bone to replace & service from military to police to SCDF to ministry to schools / hospital to private office and home.
What they had done is very limited, the OpenNet is merely 1 ISP. They way they LongPang cable ducts with Singtel does not provide a robost fail-over capable fault-tolerant national network. There are too much redundency and duplications on fibre networking in red dot as well as there are too many unpatch (un-considered) big holes. 3G/4G mobile for example should sit on top of this platform and this have to be serveral times bigger than the existing OpenNet. It should be so well laid and fault-tolerant and secure to be military fit. It need to be so good that SG communications can not be easily taken out by air-raid attacking telephone exchanges, that it re-route and by-pass damaged spots, and unless 500 locations got bombed we are not knocked out. Within the network tiers of encryption divide security levels, and encryption tunnels serves sensitive services e.g. miltary govt & banking.
IDA also seriously lack a national IPV6 plan. IPV4 is dead globally as of last year. IDA sit on it dead ass on too many cricial national infocomm needs. Dragging their feet to own casket.
:(http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120228-0000062/OpenNet-in-a-tangle-over-NGNBN-roll-out
OpenNet in a tangle over NGNBN roll-out
Infocomm Development Authority takes broadband consortium to task over unsatisfactory performance
by Tan Weizhen
04:46 AM Feb 28, 2012
SINGAPORE - The target set was for 95 per cent of the country to be wired up for the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN) by the middle of this year.
But with less than four months to go, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has stepped in due to the unsatisfactory performance of OpenNet, the company which was tasked to install and activate high-speed fibre broadband in homes and offices here.
While the 95-per-cent target is still on track - as of last month, the coverage was more than 86 per cent - concerns over operational issues have emerged and these were laid out by the IDA in a press conference yesterday: Among other things, the excessive waiting time for activation of fibre services, unsatisfactory response to increasing demand, delays in installations in commercial buildings and unreasonable pricing.
IDA deputy chief executive officer Leong Keng Thai said: "There is no excuse for OpenNet to not have been more proactive in managing challenges in the deployment of the network. Certainly, they can improve."
In 2008, when OpenNet was selected to support the network roll-out, it was also offered a grant of up to S$750 million by the Government.
Given the issues that have plagued the roll out by OpenNet, the IDA brought forward by a year a scheduled review of the performance of the company, which has undergone leadership changes, in addition to other internal issues.
And the results did little to put OpenNet - a consortium led by Axia NetMedia Corporation, with SingTel, Singapore Press Holdings and SP Telecommunications the other members - in a positive light.
To address its concerns, the IDA has now issued certain requirements to OpenNet, which it must meet by July.
Nevertheless, Mr Leong noted that there were problems "beyond OpenNet's control", such as uncooperative commercial building owners. Most of the problems with these owners have been resolved, he said.
"So as things clear up and if we find that more and more issues are related to OpenNet's operations, then yes, this may warrant regulatory action," he said.
According to IDA, regulatory measures could include the drawing up of a code and quality of service requirement which, if flouted, could attract statutory penalties such as fines.
OpenNet's woes started early last year when it faced a spate of customer complaints over delays in getting connected.
In April last year, StarHub - one of seven operating companies under the NGNBN - threatened a lawsuit, saying that OpenNet contractors had damaged its cables in some customers' homes while laying fibre-optic cables.
A month later, IDA fined the company for failing to test cables to ensure that they work.
OpenNet said it is reviewing IDA's requirements and it will continue to work closely with the authority.
OpenNet director for business development of communications Daniel Ho said: "Currently, OpenNet is working with its key sub-contractor to adjust its capacity on a more permanent basis."
Responding to Today, Mr Leong pointed out that the selection of the operator was done "through an open competitive process".
OpenNet was selected based on its competitive pricing and its offer of a "speedy and extensive network coverage".
Mr Leong said: "Although there are operational areas that need improvement in terms of OpenNet's service offerings, these are not related to the selection process."
He also reiterated that the issues being addressed in the review "goes beyond" the 95-per-cent coverage target.
As of last month, more than 86 per cent of the country has wired for the NGNBN, and connections were activated for 100,000 subscribers, of which residential customers accounted for 86,800.
Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC MP Penny Low, who sits on the Government Parliamentary Committee for Information, Communications and the Arts, said yesterday that the "much-awaited" NGNBN roll-out has, so far, "not been the easiest or smoothest".
Whether the IDA should have intervened earlier "depends on what exactly happened in each case and the number of (complaints) received", Ms Low said. Still, she reiterated that the IDA "needs to step in to ensure that our national plan remains on target". Additional reporting by Cheow Xinyi
Telcos deny new ISP's claim about NGNBN
by Tan Weizhen
SINGAPORE - The three telcos here - M1, SingTel and StarHub - have denied claims made by a new Internet service provider that they are discouraging their customers from moving to the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN).
In a report published in the Singapore Business Review magazine, the new provider, MyRepublic, claimed that while the three telcos offer the NGNBN - an ultra-high speed fibre-optic network - they do not promote it and do not offer the service at its full potential.
StarHub vice-president of home solutions Iris Wee has described MyRepublic's allegations as "irresponsible". "Our fibre broadband plans and promotions are prominently advertised on our website, shop front and retail advertisements," Ms Wee said in an email to the magazine.
A SingTel spokesman said the telco "has been actively promoting fibre services since the launch of the NGNBN". "Our customers have responded well to our wide range of fibre services, and we are grateful to have more than 55,000 users come on board so far, which is more than 50 per cent share of the market," the spokesman told Today.
M1's chief technical officer Patrick Scodeller pointed out that it was the first operator here to offer NGNBN services in September 2010.
"... Since the launch of our fibre services, we have not placed any caps on the international bandwidth across all our service plans, including those with speeds above 100 Mbps," he told Today.
"M1 does not have any legacy broadband networks nor infrastructure, hence, there is no basis to the claim made that we do not promote NGNBN services," he added.
The Infocomm Development Authority said it does not regulate the companies' advertising efforts. "How they promote (the NGNBN) is up to the company," spokeswoman Melanie Koh said. Alvin Chong
