Super High-speed Internet Satellite Kizuna

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Japan launched this artificial satellite in February 2008. It is a stationary satellite located at longitude 143° east, at an altitude of about 36,000 kilometers. It has a super high-speed data transmission rate, with a maximum of 1.2 Gbps. In May 2008, Kizuna succeeded in transmitting data at the world’s highest rate. By installing a small antenna, common households can receive data at a rate of up to 155 Mbps and send at up to 6 Mbps. Kizuna is expected to be especially useful in times of disaster or in areas that do not have adequate transmission infrastructure, such as isolated islands or remote areas.

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Teknologi sebegini sesuai untuk penetrasi internet di kawasan pendalaman semenanjung, sabah dan sarawak. Malaysia bolehlah bekerjasama dengan Japan dalam membawa teknologi internet satelit tersebut dengan menggunakan peruntukan USP yang mana banyak tak dimanafaatkan.

MIRI, Jan 10 (Bernama) -- Only about RM150 million has been utilised from the RM2.6-billion Universal Service Provision (USP) fund to provide rural areas with telephone services as well as broadband connectivity, Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik said here today.


He said the fund, which was set up in 1998 and is managed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), had not been well utilised as most companies which proposed to be financed under the fund were not able to apply the right technology to expand communications access in the rural areas.

"What we want is for everyone in the rural areas to get the (communications access) services by providing the transmission stations or the base stations," he told a press conference after Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud launched the Miri Wifi City at the Curtin University of Technology campus here.