Terms such as “traffic shaping” and others are being bandied about. This is what ISPs in other countries are doing after they found out their services had been over-subscribed. But at least those foreign ISPs had to admit their infrastructure was not up to par.
Malaysian ISPs, on the other hand, are complaining about the slow adoption rate, and have conducted multi-million ringgit-marketing campaigns to boost subscription.
So despite these complaints, demand is far outstripping supply, even if the ISPs don’t want to admit it. It’s logical, isn’t it? If your network is being under-utilised, why would you need to restrict access? Duh!
A. Asohan, a well-known veteran technology journalist in Malaysia, has taken notice of the quagmire that Malaysia's broadband industry seems to be sinking deeper into in recent months. Taking aim at the barely-acknowledged practice of bandwidth throttling adopted by our local Internet Service Providers, A. Asohan has written 
