Say NO to RM100!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! There i said it.... MMU (Multimedia University) is gonna charge us an additional RM100 for IT services fee decided to impose on students starting the academic year 2008/2009!!!! Wat the...??!!! First, there's the HIGHER PARKING FEE, then there's the LIBRARY FEE, and now IT SERVICES FEE???!!

IT services fee is for the maintenance fees of MMLS, course registration system, wireless services and other online services... and the CITS cant even guarantee that after we paid the RM100, the problems we encountered before will be solved. Heck, then why should we even bother to pay the RM100(which is A LOT!!!!) for it. I personally think that even is we do pay them, the problems will still be there. Anyway, enough of my ranting..., here are some of the controversial issues posted on the petition website....


1. Although the students from both of the campuses will be charged the same fee, Cyberjaya campus will get a better service in terms of bandwidth increment (from 34 Mbps to 100 Mbps). This is because the hardware of Cyberjaya campus is more advanced than us and our hardware is not able to support the 100 Mbps bandwidth (Cyberjaya's hardware can support up to 400 Mbps while ours can only support up till 100 Mbps).


2. Not every student is using the wireless service.


3. CITS cannot guarantee that after the imposition of the IT services fee, all the flaws that we encountered before (e.g. system down during the course registration period) can be solved once and for all.


4. Number of concurrent connections to the web services such as MMLS and course registration may or may not be increased. If it is not increased, the increase in bandwidth would not make much of a difference as the number of users allowed to access the said websites will still remain the same. As such, at high usage periods (i.e. before/during exam for MMLS & course registration days) students will still have the problem of not being able to access the websites. It would be akin to widening the roads but still having the same number of exits – You’ll get to the exits/entrances (i.e. websites) faster. Once there, you’ll have to wait in line (for countless hours) just as before.


Good news is we all can stop it by doing our part, sign the petition here.


SAY NO TO IT SERVICES FEE!!!


p/s-If you happen to read this entry, and you are a MMU student, pls sign the petition. If you just graduated from MMU, you can sign also, and if u happend to know any MMU student, pls inform them about this matter and ask them to participate in the petition. TQ. :)