One of the problems… no house phone is available yet. Telekom told us that we will have to wait until 50% occupancy at the area before they install the phone line; or we can choose to pay for the installation fees to get the service.
Ok, we can still survive without a fix phone line; we are using mobile phones mostly… but it is quite a headache for not able to access the internet at my new house. It’s particularly disastrous for a person like me who works online for a living.
I am not sure how the telecommunication in other countries works… I felt that a phone line is a basic infrastructure these days. It is ridiculous that the service provider has to think twice before providing a line at a new housing area… we might expect these situation 50 years ago, but not in the 21st century.
Considering the monopoly of Telekom in Malaysia… we could do nothing much besides waiting. There goes our government’s ambition to increase the broadband penetration in Malaysia… we don’t even have a fix line in Kuala Lumpur. Sh!t.
Update - got our phone line in Dec 07 despite having less than 50% occupancy; thank goodness that logic prevails.