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At last, the biggest ICT news Malaysian are waiting for was announced on the 15th March 2007. Four companies have been awarded with the 2.3GHz broadband wireless access spectrum or WiMAX licences. Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access or WiMAX is defined in the IEEE 802.16 standard. It is also know known as WirelessMAN.
The award was devided into 2 sectors: First sector is Peninsular Malaysia and the second sector is Sabah & Sarawak.

For the Peninsular sector, there are three licenses:
1. Bizsurf (M) Sdn Bhd
2. MIB Comm Sdn Bhd
3. Asiaspace Dotcom Sdn Bhd.

And for the Sabah & Sarawak sector, it is for Redtone-CNX Broadband Sdn Bhd.

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said, all the winners are expected to quickly roll out the service to 25 per cent of the population in the area given to them by end of this year (2007), with a service provision of at least 1Mbps (earlier, end of 2006, it was announced that the minimum speed is at guaranteed 2Mbps – not at best effort!) at affordable rates. It is expected, at the end of third year, they will be able to roll services to at least 40 per cent of the population in the areas given to them. Each of the companies is expected to invest between RM250 million and RM300 million in the first three years of the WiMAX implementation.

Although it supposed to be the biggest news, it is also an upset news. None of the big telcos manage obtain the license. One reason is that, the big telcos who are currently holding the 3G license can roll out their wireless broadband service through the High-Speed Downlink Packet Access or HSDPA. HSDPA is able to reach 3.6Mbps speed.

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A new Economist Intelligent survey has found that many companies now rely heavily on IT systems and that the attention they devote to risks associated with their operations has increased significantly. To avoid the devastating consequences from even a short period of disruptions of their technology infrastucture, a majority of the companies are taking steps to implement Business Continuity Programmes (BCP)… NST Tech&U, Monday March 12, 2007.

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I or for that matter my department started using Microsoft Exchange Server way back in 1997/98. We started with Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 which is part of the Microsoft BackOffice Server 4.0.
BO includes Windows NT Server 4.0, Internet Information Server 4.0, Index Server 2.0, Certificate Server, Transaction Server 2.0, Message Queue Server, Internet Connection Services for Remote Access Service, FrontPage 98, Exchange Server 5.5, Proxy Server 2.0, SNA Server 4.0, SQL Server 6.5, Site Server 3.0, Systems Management Server 1.2

It was the greatest opportunity for me to be involved in a full scale IT Master Plan. I started working in 2nd September 1993 in Computer Department and posted here in 1st March 1995.

We have been using the same version ever since although there is already Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in the market as I’m writing this entry…

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