The newspapers reported to-day that Maxis is expecting 2 billions sms by the end of this year.This sector of ICT is worth RM 750million ringgit a year! That is a mind boggling numbers of sms and these telcos will be laughing all the way to banks...and taken out from your pockets and mine.
Looking outside the window from my mother's house in my kampung (village) now, I see a 5-storey steel structure towering above the coconut palms dotting my kampung.It belongs to TM Touch and it is standing tall just 200 metres from where I am now.Looking at the sky, I just wonder where all the sms are going to and coming from.Added to it, what are the contents in those sms's? In the last few weeks, I know at least 5millions sms went to Akademi Fantasia!
On the ground, nothing much has changed to my kampung.We may have the latest ICT, but the way people live and earn their living remains like it was 20 years ago.ICT can change every 6 months but not the way people live. Old habits die hard...and worse ICT can be misused in the wrong hands.
One sad thing my dear mother lamented,"Now , we have more drug addicts and we have to lock our doors and windows at night".
"Hitech may rule to-day, but tomorrow belongs to human spirits"
talking about wireless tower. near my in law house we have all five providers tower side by side within 200m radius. but if there is a power failure more than six hours they are useless as well except tmtouch which has their own diesel generator.
Posted by: mhi | Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 09:36 PM