'The public can choose from several free e-mail services from well-known companies if they wish to send an e-mail to a government agency.'
Tricubes: 1M'sia Email privately funded
Bernard Chen: What private company would want to duplicate a communication architecture that is already available for free on the Internet? The RM50 million "private" investments would only be put there due to two plausible reasons:
1) The return on investments (ROI) would definitely be a cost to the people - if not the initial investment, then the subsequent costs.
2) This new email system will be used to now monitor all Internet activities in the country.
PM Najib Razak, you seek to make a profit at the cost of the people and put in a mechanism of control in the Internet? We know you, and we know your party. Your greed is too obvious for you to hide. Take this away. We don't want it.
Gokula Krishna: If it's a private initiative, why was there such a pumped delivery and this project is included as part of the government's Economic Transformation Programme?
Wira: The RM50 million may not officially appear as payment for providing 1Malaysia email service. It may, however, be listed in some invoices as payment/commission for services granted. Najib can sleep, but we can't.
Pemerhati: Najib says that the 1Malaysia Email project is a voluntary private initiative and does not involve public money. But he does not mention or give the assurance that the government would not pay an exorbitant price for its unnecessary services and allow this almost bankrupt company to make a huge return on its investment.
This financially unsound company would probably go bankrupt if it were to set up the project on its own and if the government does not use and pay handsomely for its services.
The public can choose from several free e-mail services from well-known companies such as Yahoo, Google and Microsoft if they wish to send an e-mail to a government agency. All Najib has to do is give some e-mail addresses to which the public can send their e-mails to.
It will cost the government nothing but here Najib is wasting RM50 million, probably to help Tricubes to get out of its financial difficulties and help some BN people and cronies to pocket a few million.
RM50mil for 1Malaysia email project
Sarajun Hoda: Pity PM Najib. He is coming up with fantastic ideas to develop the nation on a fast track but the people are still suspicious because of his supposedly bad track record - too much news of his alleged corruption, exploitation by his wife Rosmah Mansor, etc.
People are also worried as to how fast the government is cutting subsidies but spending excessively on projects. They still have a hard time believing it will work.
If Najib really succeeds in creating so many jobs and economic programmes to sustain national development, this could be our dream come true. Before we commend Najib, let's see the results first. It won't take long to know.
Dkay: Can any citizen of Malaysia get a court injunction to stop such a stupid idea? Of course, in our kangaroo courts, it won't happen, but I'm wondering if there is a law which can stop the government from spending public money needlessly.
Docs: Here is my take on this 1Malaysia Email project:
1) This looks like another Umno scam to either channel the money into their the party's account or help some Umno crony company;
2) How often, when you send an email to a government department's general email, do you get a reply? So once the email accounts have been set up, who is going to answer the rakyat's questions?
3) What about sensitive questions like, ‘If pendatangs are not considered real citizens by Umno, do they need to pay taxes?" Will these be answered sensibility?
Lim Chong Leong: Why in the world would we need to use only the 1Malaysia email to do government billings when existing free email already serve that purpose? How is this company going to operate this portal and services? And with what funds if not taxpayers money?
Troubled firm to spearhead email project
Leongan: It is really a waste of fund. I have used Google, Yahoo and Hotmail with unlimited capacity, plus they are free. Didn't the government conduct a value management study (VMS) on this before launching it?
Orang_gila_Malaya: How can a GN3-status company be awarded such a big contract? Tricubes has a mountain of debts. How can they fund the project with its own cash? Tricubes has been suppling passports and MyKad to Malaysians. These are necessities to Malaysians - how on earth can it be going into debt?
Cks: It appears this is just testing the waters, BN-style. If there is strong protest, the corrupt will back off. Otherwise it will be a rip-off.
1Malaysia Email not using public money, says PM
Blackknight: Najib is sounding like the miller in Rumpelstiltskin, who when in high anxiety before the king said that his daughter could spin straw into gold.
He desperately wants to make his Economic Transformation Programme and Government Transformation Programme look good. There are really so many other pressing concerns but trust Najib to come out with this pea-brained idea.
We can avail free e-mail accounts without government intervention. Secondly, how many would even bother to check messages in this government account? It would just be like the fliers in our post boxes - straight from the mail box to the rubbish bin.
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