I was at MIMOS Technology Forum 2007 yesterday. Met a couple of friends from Cradle, there was Dato’ Abdul Wahab Abdullah (MIMOS Preseident and CEO), Dato’ Kong Cho Ha (Deputy Minister, MOSTI), and some really smart researchers.

What I find most interesting is that the amount of R&D MIMOS is cooking up in their kitchen.

In particular, MIMOS has a project called Wi-Wi. This was presented by Dr. Mazlan Abbas (MIMOS’s Head of Wireless Comm Cluster). Wi-Wi is a MIMOS patented wireless technology, featuring peer-to-peer WiMax-Wifi combo that promise to bring wireless Internet access to the most remote part of our country. The device is small enough to be mounted on lamp post, and …. well, you get the idea.

Now here is something for MIMOS to think about. Instead of having one (or a few) monopolistic company deploying Wi-Wi, make Wi-Wi device easy enough for anyone that want to deploy it. And that person get to share the revenue generated from his Wi-Wi device. This is not dissimilar to FON.

So Wi-Wi, … something to watch out for!

Unfortunately I did not manage to stay for the whole event, as I have to run for a workshop (which is awesome by the way, but that’s for another post).