Reduction of Internet pricing in Malaysia and its relationship to the revolution of digital content
Internet access has become very extensive in the Southeast Asian region. Thailand and Singapore managed to provide great broadband access and speed, both on wired and mobile connections at low costs. To a greater extent, Internet access has been mooted to form part of the modern living necessity,...
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/70665/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/70665/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/70665/8/70665_Reduction%20of%20Internet%20pricing%20in%20Malaysia.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/70665/2/IPIRA%20Program-Final%2030%20January%202019.pdf |
| Summary: | Internet access has become very extensive in the Southeast Asian region. Thailand
and Singapore managed to provide great broadband access and speed, both on
wired and mobile connections at low costs. To a greater extent, Internet access has
been mooted to form part of the modern living necessity, which qualifies it to be a
labelled as human right. Despite the increased Internet penetration in Malaysia,
particularly in urban areas, there lies issues over expensive costs of subscription to
high-speed broadband services. As consumers have no option but to opt for
packages with expensive rate of subscription, there lies a great deal of uncertainty
as to whether the Internet is exclusively meant for the elites. If such is the case, one
cannot hope that the proposition to transform ‘Internet access’ as human right to be
realised in a near future. At the same time, high costs to Internet access may well be
translated into impeding growth of digital content as will be seen in this paper. Since
this is a work in-progress, some of the popular Internet-pricing models and how
adoption of these models may have its relation to the growth of digital content will be
analysed. It is hypothesised that when Internet-pricing is reduced, it translates into
positive impact to promoting evolution of digital content. |
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