There are two ways of looking at this blocking of access to sites and other forms of state repression.
1) If when in power, your opponent/enemy had blocked you online, suppressed newspapers and other publications and broadcasts supportive of you and had intimidated or even detained your own politicians and political allies, then it is fair game to turn the tables on your opponents or enemies when you are in power.
2) When in power, you must play the game of democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and so forth according to Marquess of Queensberry Rules, and must allow your opponent / enemy to attack you verbally, in writing or through the civil courts, whilst you reserve the right to respond in the same non-violent manner.
The book - Men in White: The Untold Story of Singapore's Ruling Political Party by Sonny Yap, Richard Lim, Leong Weng Kam describes how the Fabian or more broadly western-educated, middle-class, social-democratic faction of the People's Action Party employed the approaches in 1) to suppress political competition from the Chinese-educated, China-oriented, pro-communist, working and farming class-oriented faction of the PAP in Operation Cold Store, some of whom had formed the Barisan Sosialis after being expelled or after having left the PAP.
With regards the MCMC waiving the 49% cap on foreign equity for NFP and NSP licenses when granting a 10-year license to Starlink, a 100% foreign-owned company, there are some who argue that this is some kind of incentive, or might we say a kind of a "bait" to encourage Elon Musk to make larger investments in Malaysia further down the road.
It's therefore a valid question as for why the need Starlink, when Malaysian satellite communications company MEASAT Satellite Systems being able to provide the satellite backhaul link for local CONNECTme Now pre-paid WiFi service in remote villages which do not have cellular 4G or 5G coverage or fixed fibre Internet backhaul connections.
For instance, why back in July 2020 did Sabahan student Veveonah Mosibin have to climb a tree in her remote village in Sabah to get a strong enough cellular signal to take her online exams, when MEASAT's CONNECTme Now prepaid WiFi local coverage of her village and a MEASAT backhaul satellite link would have solved that problem.
My article published on 17 October 2021 speaks about a foreign satellite constellation operator SES was working with South-East Asian telecommunication regulators to provide broadband Internet and telecommunication coverage of remote areas across the region:-
HOW SES CAN HELP SOUTH-EAST ASIA BRIDGE THE COMMUNICATIONS DIVIDE
Whilst there apparently has been some progress for SES in Indonesia, according to this Jakarta Post article of 24 June 2023 written by Harsh Verma, SES vice president for enterprise and cloud across Asia,
However there is no further news about the progress of SES in Malaysia, or at least no further news I can find about progress of SES in Malaysia.
However, the question remains that if there already is MEASAT Satellite Systems providing satellite backhaul connections for local broadband Internet hotspots in remote locations, why then the need for SES and Starlink satellite backhaul links?
Further to my earlier comment before this comment, is the article in The Vibes of 30 July 2023 by Stephen Then in Miri, Sarawak, the Sarawak Orang Ulu Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants both the state and federal government to provide Starlink satellite connectivity to every state parliamentary constituency will be provided with Starlink satellite hook-up very soon and at the state and federal governments' expense.
This raises questions as to why after all these years of satellite backhaul connectivity which can be provided by MEASAT Satellite Systems and its CONNECTme NOW prepaid community WiFi hotspots providing local area coverage of remote communities, there remains a wide digital divide in Sarawak, where schools and clinics in remote areas lack good Internet connection.
The Vibes article follows:-
‘Federal, state govt must provide funds for Starlink hook-up in rural Sarawak’
Local leaders call for commitment to ensure accessibility to people there
Updated 3 hours ago · Published on 30 Jul 2023 11:45AM
MIRI – The Sarawak Orang Ulu Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants a commitment from both the state and federal government that every state parliamentary constituency will be provided with Starlink satellite hook-up very soon.
Hard-pressed to see improvements in the welfare and infrastructure of rural Sarawak, chamber president Datuk Mutang Tagal today said the governments at both the federal and state levels must commit to this Starlink project as it will definitely narrow the huge digital divide in Sarawak.
“The introduction of the Starlink satellite communication facility will surely play a big role in bridging the huge digital divide existing between urban and rural Sarawak now.
“The government of the day must commit to this project to enable Starlink facilities to be made available in all rural clinics, schools and longhouses,” he said.
“Financing must come from the government at the state and national levels as it will involve huge allocation.”
Tagal also stressed that rural Sarawak folks are facing the constant problem of electricity supply shortages and power disruption.
“For the Starlink satellite linkage to work efficiently and for the long term, we must make sure the electricity supply is very stable first, then we can install the Starlink facility.
“So in terms of the actual cost of installing Starlink facilities in rural areas, the cost will be huge as it will involve the provision of stable power supplies and installation of the Starlink equipment.”
On July 27, Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii from Sarawak DAP said that the federal government will purchase the latest Starlink satellite hook-up gadgets for rural clinics and rural schools in Sarawak.
The federal Communications and Digital Ministry has promised to give priority attention to Sarawak, he said in Kuching.
Dr Yii said he had spoken to minister Fahmi Fadzi on the matter.
“I spoke to the minister and he said that rural clinics and rural schools in Sarawak will be included as target areas for Starlink satellite linkages.
“We are already in the process of identifying the clinics and schools in Sarawak in need of immediate connectivity linkage now.
“They are in remote parts,” he said in a press statement.
Dr Yii said the immediate connection will be for those locations without broadband coverage and without high-speed fibre networks.
The key advantages of the latest Starlink linkage are speed and portability as the equipment is light and easier to install, he added. – The Vibes, July 30, 2023
With regards the need for a very stable 100 - 240 Volts AC and 50 to 60Hz frequency, a high performance Starlink ground tranceiver, routers and so forth requires 100 to 150 watts on average or 45 watts when idle, whilst lower powered Starlink tranceivers require up to 100 watts maximum, which is the power of a traditional tungsten filament incandescent light bulb.
So far, whilst it has its problems and limitations, remotely-based, photo-voltaic solar -electricity generation panels used with local battery storage and perhaps are used to provide power to remotely located satellite ground stations.
In the case of Starlink tranceivers which operate on 100 to 240 Volts AC only, a DC-to-AC inverter, similar to those which you can power off your car's 12 volt DC battery can be used to power a Starlink transceiver.
In this updated article, Noah Clarke describes DC power supplies for Starlink Roam tranceivers.
Easy Plug And Play 12V DC Power Supply For Starlink Roam
Also, looking at the nature of Starlink ground terminal installations across its Residential, Business, Roam, Mobility, Maritime and Aviation applications, it very much looks like Starlink is designed more for relatively light-duty use by individuals or small groups or small teams working or travelling in remote areas, who need a satellite link for communication.
There are two ways of looking at this blocking of access to sites and other forms of state repression.
1) If when in power, your opponent/enemy had blocked you online, suppressed newspapers and other publications and broadcasts supportive of you and had intimidated or even detained your own politicians and political allies, then it is fair game to turn the tables on your opponents or enemies when you are in power.
2) When in power, you must play the game of democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and so forth according to Marquess of Queensberry Rules, and must allow your opponent / enemy to attack you verbally, in writing or through the civil courts, whilst you reserve the right to respond in the same non-violent manner.
The book - Men in White: The Untold Story of Singapore's Ruling Political Party by Sonny Yap, Richard Lim, Leong Weng Kam describes how the Fabian or more broadly western-educated, middle-class, social-democratic faction of the People's Action Party employed the approaches in 1) to suppress political competition from the Chinese-educated, China-oriented, pro-communist, working and farming class-oriented faction of the PAP in Operation Cold Store, some of whom had formed the Barisan Sosialis after being expelled or after having left the PAP.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9814266248/ref=x_gr_bb_amazon?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_bb_amazon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=9814266248&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
With regards the MCMC waiving the 49% cap on foreign equity for NFP and NSP licenses when granting a 10-year license to Starlink, a 100% foreign-owned company, there are some who argue that this is some kind of incentive, or might we say a kind of a "bait" to encourage Elon Musk to make larger investments in Malaysia further down the road.
It's therefore a valid question as for why the need Starlink, when Malaysian satellite communications company MEASAT Satellite Systems being able to provide the satellite backhaul link for local CONNECTme Now pre-paid WiFi service in remote villages which do not have cellular 4G or 5G coverage or fixed fibre Internet backhaul connections.
For instance, why back in July 2020 did Sabahan student Veveonah Mosibin have to climb a tree in her remote village in Sabah to get a strong enough cellular signal to take her online exams, when MEASAT's CONNECTme Now prepaid WiFi local coverage of her village and a MEASAT backhaul satellite link would have solved that problem.
My article published on 17 October 2021 speaks about a foreign satellite constellation operator SES was working with South-East Asian telecommunication regulators to provide broadband Internet and telecommunication coverage of remote areas across the region:-
HOW SES CAN HELP SOUTH-EAST ASIA BRIDGE THE COMMUNICATIONS DIVIDE
https://www.enterprisetv.com.my/how-ses-can-help-south-east-asia-bridge-the-communications-divide/
Whilst there apparently has been some progress for SES in Indonesia, according to this Jakarta Post article of 24 June 2023 written by Harsh Verma, SES vice president for enterprise and cloud across Asia,
https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2023/06/24/meo-satellites-are-the-answer-to-indonesias-digital-divide.html.
However there is no further news about the progress of SES in Malaysia, or at least no further news I can find about progress of SES in Malaysia.
However, the question remains that if there already is MEASAT Satellite Systems providing satellite backhaul connections for local broadband Internet hotspots in remote locations, why then the need for SES and Starlink satellite backhaul links?
Further to my earlier comment before this comment, is the article in The Vibes of 30 July 2023 by Stephen Then in Miri, Sarawak, the Sarawak Orang Ulu Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants both the state and federal government to provide Starlink satellite connectivity to every state parliamentary constituency will be provided with Starlink satellite hook-up very soon and at the state and federal governments' expense.
This raises questions as to why after all these years of satellite backhaul connectivity which can be provided by MEASAT Satellite Systems and its CONNECTme NOW prepaid community WiFi hotspots providing local area coverage of remote communities, there remains a wide digital divide in Sarawak, where schools and clinics in remote areas lack good Internet connection.
The Vibes article follows:-
‘Federal, state govt must provide funds for Starlink hook-up in rural Sarawak’
Local leaders call for commitment to ensure accessibility to people there
Updated 3 hours ago · Published on 30 Jul 2023 11:45AM
MIRI – The Sarawak Orang Ulu Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants a commitment from both the state and federal government that every state parliamentary constituency will be provided with Starlink satellite hook-up very soon.
Hard-pressed to see improvements in the welfare and infrastructure of rural Sarawak, chamber president Datuk Mutang Tagal today said the governments at both the federal and state levels must commit to this Starlink project as it will definitely narrow the huge digital divide in Sarawak.
“The introduction of the Starlink satellite communication facility will surely play a big role in bridging the huge digital divide existing between urban and rural Sarawak now.
“The government of the day must commit to this project to enable Starlink facilities to be made available in all rural clinics, schools and longhouses,” he said.
“Financing must come from the government at the state and national levels as it will involve huge allocation.”
Tagal also stressed that rural Sarawak folks are facing the constant problem of electricity supply shortages and power disruption.
“For the Starlink satellite linkage to work efficiently and for the long term, we must make sure the electricity supply is very stable first, then we can install the Starlink facility.
“So in terms of the actual cost of installing Starlink facilities in rural areas, the cost will be huge as it will involve the provision of stable power supplies and installation of the Starlink equipment.”
On July 27, Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii from Sarawak DAP said that the federal government will purchase the latest Starlink satellite hook-up gadgets for rural clinics and rural schools in Sarawak.
The federal Communications and Digital Ministry has promised to give priority attention to Sarawak, he said in Kuching.
Dr Yii said he had spoken to minister Fahmi Fadzi on the matter.
“I spoke to the minister and he said that rural clinics and rural schools in Sarawak will be included as target areas for Starlink satellite linkages.
“We are already in the process of identifying the clinics and schools in Sarawak in need of immediate connectivity linkage now.
“They are in remote parts,” he said in a press statement.
Dr Yii said the immediate connection will be for those locations without broadband coverage and without high-speed fibre networks.
The key advantages of the latest Starlink linkage are speed and portability as the equipment is light and easier to install, he added. – The Vibes, July 30, 2023
https://www.thevibes.com/articles/news/97051/federal-state-govt-must-provide-funds-for-starlink-hook-up-in-rural-sarawak
With regards the need for a very stable 100 - 240 Volts AC and 50 to 60Hz frequency, a high performance Starlink ground tranceiver, routers and so forth requires 100 to 150 watts on average or 45 watts when idle, whilst lower powered Starlink tranceivers require up to 100 watts maximum, which is the power of a traditional tungsten filament incandescent light bulb.
https://www.starlinkhardware.com/how-much-power-does-starlink-use/
So far, whilst it has its problems and limitations, remotely-based, photo-voltaic solar -electricity generation panels used with local battery storage and perhaps are used to provide power to remotely located satellite ground stations.
http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1021-447X2014000200004
In the case of Starlink tranceivers which operate on 100 to 240 Volts AC only, a DC-to-AC inverter, similar to those which you can power off your car's 12 volt DC battery can be used to power a Starlink transceiver.
In this updated article, Noah Clarke describes DC power supplies for Starlink Roam tranceivers.
Easy Plug And Play 12V DC Power Supply For Starlink Roam
https://www.starlinkhardware.com/tutorial-12v-dc-power-supply-for-starlink-rv/
Meanwhile, rather interestingly, Starlink's specifications do not mention the optimal number of simultaneous users it can support with adequate speed.
https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1470-99699-90?regionCode=MY
Also, looking at the nature of Starlink ground terminal installations across its Residential, Business, Roam, Mobility, Maritime and Aviation applications, it very much looks like Starlink is designed more for relatively light-duty use by individuals or small groups or small teams working or travelling in remote areas, who need a satellite link for communication.
https://www.starlink.com/
https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1470-99699-90?regionCode=MY