cant put it in better words. Now only a few of the vendors are bumi. The best part is the Bumi vendours only supply parts to Proton. The non Bumi ones are also supplying other car makers but the parts for them are better quality.

Proton should have weed out those no good buggers eons ago. They dont have to wait for TUV, but then again, Proton doesn’t have the ball to kick out the bad vendours because of the political ties they have.

Politicians are sucking our money.

Why there is different of our government policy towards telco and automotive industries? in order to understand the root causes, we should know the political economy and govrnment direction in respective industries since the establishment.

The main objective of the national car project established i.e. Proton was actualy as one of the project in NEP (national economy policy or dasar ekonomi baru) which as an effort assist bumiputra and narrow down the so-called economic gap among races. When Proton lauched, the government encouraged bumiputra to join in this project to become auto parts suppliers for proton despite they totally lack of experience in auto parts manufacturing. There were plenty of programmes and kursus carried out to educate these vendors. however, When times went by, the project which had a good starting become inefficient due to the subsidy mentality of our local suppliers. If we convict Proton is inefficient, we should also think tht the root cause also because of our lousy suppliers supply lousy parts to Proton. Due to the background, it is hard for the government to lift up the protectionist policy without any serious consideration.

Of course, the telco indsutry is much more stra8 forward. In the National Telecommunication Policy of Malaysia, the govenrment direction is towards an open source country in order to achieve a knowledge society in 2020, tht’s why the government never protect our telco industry, instead encourages competition. U can visit the followinng link for further info: http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan002712.pdf

So, what i want to say is historical factors do play a significant role in the analysis of why the govt pursues two distinct policies for the said industries.

agree with you, they are still selling junk.

no competition means no need to improve.

end of the day, the country suffer !!

Or more likely if foreign competition is brought in, Proton might just croak up and wither away. That would be a blow to UMNO – afterall, they wanted Proton while the rest of Malaysia questioned the wisdom behind it. But there was little to no political opposition in providing TMnet’s services, especially broadband ones, and contention was based merely on the extend of the services not the fact a Malaysian, government-supported company provides them.

Plus, it is unlikely TMnet Sdn Bhd would significantly reduce in dominance once the market is opened up. It’s market share would obviously drop significantly from its near-monopoly status now, but TMnet isn’t gonna get hit all that hard. Especially when their main business still isn’t consumer broadband (there’s already a significant amount of competition for business and corporate broadband which explains why they’re more competitive).

Just saying.