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To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (1543)	1/25/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Thomas; <<Anyway, the news for the Malaysian Silicon Valley town and Banglore IT park seem almost too good to be true...>> Interesting response..my wife had exactly the same response. She says she will believe it when she sees it. My own view is that Cyber Jaya and the Multi Media Super Corridor are so internationally visible that there will be political hell to pay if it does not come off in time. The thing that has me wondering is the telecommunications part of it. Telekom Malaysia has to be the absolute worse (in performance) I have ever seen. Trying to get a new line installed or a repair done is like trying to part the Red Sea. And the employees (most of them hold over bureaucrats from the days Telekom was a Gov't agency) are the most apathetic and pathetic people I have ever had the misfortune to deal with. I think one of Malaysia's biggest weaknesses is its telecommunications scenario with power distribution (Tenaga) being a close second. A wonderful story I heard on the golf course was from a Mngng Dir of a very large prestige hotel here. It seems he had Tenaga executives and Telekom executives in his hotel simulataneously for VIP functions. The power went out. Telekom folks were howling, giving the Hotel MD a really hard time, because the power had failed during the Chairman's speech. The hotelier finally got flustered and told them to go see the Tenaga guys meeting down the hall. In the meantime, the Tenaga guys were upset also. When the power went off they couldnt get through on the phone lines to the main office of Tenaga to find out what had happened. The two angry groups met in the hallway in a finger pointing brawl. He swore it was a true story. Best, Stitch