It was about couple of weeks ago that my ex-boss, even we’re in the same division i still regard him as my boss, and he were given a task to make the Price Fluactuation of the Control Item in Malaysia real-time data for the officers, maybe on the next stage we would go real-time to public.

As what we experience, The Control Item Prices in Malaysia sometimes does not reach the public’s knowledge and it takes time for the public to know what’s happening. So after several discussion in pursuit of solution, we came out with Bloomberg ideas. So we called Bloomberg guys to come over to the office and demonstrate how can the Bloomberg effective system would be able to cater to our needs.

As we sat down, on the meeting tables, discussion have been made about all the benefits of using Bloomberg. According to them bloomberg have many clients around the world and their services is basically as what available at their website ;

Bloomberg is about information: accessing it, reporting it, analyzing it and distributing it, faster and more accurately than any other organization. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service, the company’s core product, is the fastest-growing real-time financial information network in the world.

So we were very impressed, asking them to demonstrate the system to us. These two guys from bloomberg looks very pleasing at first as they starting out to demonstrate with their own company laptop. As we continued discussing to pass the time and allow the websites of Bloomberg to load using his 3G card.

The guys were expatriate and both of them have various MultiNationals job experience, the guys told us that it have been around 4 years working here at Bloomberg Malaysia.

But to no avail….actually nobody realizes that there were no 3G connection here, in the middle of Putrajaya? So….i asked him, what carrier do you use, he said it was Maxis. MAxis???does not have 3G coverage here?.

The Bloomberg guys seem very annoyed and frustrated and they become somewhat “giving up” by the idea of connecting to the internet. More of this, as i whispered to my colleague, its is such an absurd thinking there was no 3G connection in the middle of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) territory. What the hell does Maxis is doing.

Towards the end, we tried to used the wired line internet connection but were not lucky enough as the Office server is down. Becoming a little bit shame facing this Blommberg guys and we commence on discussing as both parties looks very frustrated with what happened.

Therefore, what might you think that 3G connection is not available in the middle of Putrajaya, the Centre of Federal Government Administration? Or is it there is less demand for 3G connection and the carrier couldn’t care less about it.

So…how can we suppose to encouraged the usage of the internet and developing the so called e-commerce when having halt 3G connection in the middle of Putrajaya? I dare that we would not be able to hover the usage of internet connection as information sharing is very crucial nowadays especially when an organisations communicate with other organisations.

I think this might be one of the irritating experience and to add it further, the discussion is between us and the Mat Salleh guys!