Imagine this.

It’s a normal Monday and the kids are back from school. Out of curiosity, you log on to your home webcam just to see what they are up to :). There they are, the two kids are up to their naughty mischiefs again. “Ha ha”, you laughed, knowing where those pesky ”booby” traps are that they have “lovingly” set up for you at home.

Next you ”ping” your refrigerator and make a download of a list of foodstuff available. Going through the list, you realised that you may not have enough food for dinner later. As such you make a quick order to your friendly neighbourhood grocery shop or hypermart which then drops off your groceries at your door step as you return from work. Phew, that sure saves the trouble of queuing up at the counter. 

Amazing scenario? Well it may well come true in the township of the future which all Malaysians may one day live. This is provided that all the government efforts to increase the rate of Internet penetration in Malaysia bears fruit.

The foundations for this has already begin to take shape. The government is offering its expertise in a private-public partnership to improve the telecommunications infrastructure to existing and new housing estates. 

• In line with efforts to establish a knowledge-based economy and narrow the digital divide, the Malaysian Government has targeted to increase the broadband penetration rate to 50% of households by 2010, from 12% currently. For this, an effective public-private partnership will be required to accelerate the rollout of broadband. As part of this effort, developers will be encouraged to provide telecommunication infrastructure in new housing areas.

If all works as plan, the Malaysia of tomorrow would indeed be the place to live in. I am definitely looking forward to this.

(Editors notes :- Not to mention the extremely fast download speeds)

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