Loose Wire, Loose Wagstaff
My colleague Jeremy Wagstaff will move to Singapore. He already decided to move to the neighbour Singapore due to Internet access problems in Indonesia — where he lives with his wife, an Indonesian woman, for many years now.
“But, moving to Singapore will not my long-term planning. I will go there just to set-up my office where I can organize my Podcast and video blog files well. You know that it’s easy to download podcasts in Jakarta, but it’s very hard to upload them,” he told me when we had a chit-chat recently at Starbuck of Setiabudi One, South Jakarta.
“Of course, I will return back here, where my Singapore office has been settled,” he added.
Jeremy has worked as a journalist since 1986 — for BBC, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Since 2000 he has been writing a technology column (called Loose Wire) and has since 2004 appeared regularly on the BBC World Service.
However, Indonesia is gonna miss him. Me, too.
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1 Bunyamin Najmi
“decided to move to the neighbour Singapore due to Internet access problems in Indonesia”
This is the first time I hear reason why people move to another country
April 10th, 2007 at 10:33 pm2 JaF
Hmm.. should I be saying good bye or welcome Jeremy?
Pak Jeremy, disini juga ada starbucks kok hehehehe
April 14th, 2007 at 8:31 pm3 gardino
saya belum pernah ke luar negeri, ada yang bisa kasih gambaran ke saya seperti apa perbandingannya koneksi internet di sini dengan di luar?
April 17th, 2007 at 11:05 pm4 JaF
Pak Budi, broadcast asia / communic asia bulan Juni datang kan? Menarik2 tuh topiknya. Tema besarnya: Digital: The Journey Forward. Hayo dateng.. Kita nongkrong di Starbucks lagi, sama Pak Jeremy hehehe
April 19th, 2007 at 3:17 am5 anymatters
Keliatannya Mas Budi mo diajak ke BBC nih. Mudah-mudahan ya mas.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:26 pm6 Budi Putra
@ gardino:
Umumnya, di atas 2 mb per second….
@JaF:
I hope so. Btw, I will attend HP Media Enterprise Summit in Singapore 22-24 May 2007. So, see you soon.
@Anymatters:
Thanks ya, Mas
April 21st, 2007 at 2:45 am7 Pogung177
We are all dreaming broadband come arrive to Indonesia with cheap prices…BUT when..it will come..?
May 8th, 2007 at 5:07 pm8 Danny
@Bunyamin Najmi
Well, might be the first time but not the last. If you need to work with internet daily and need reliability, well, sorry to say, Indonesia is not the country to chose. In Europe, the broadband can be as huge as 20Mb/s for something like 25 euros per mounth.
Think about that : when you are really busy, do you want to spend hours checking on a file upload ? When it’s your job, well…
October 18th, 2007 at 12:53 am