Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd

Products
Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd, a national sewerage company, owned by
Minister of Finance Incorporated, is responsible for providing sewerage services,
operating and maintaining over 5,750 public sewage treatment plants and
13,000km networks of sewerage pipelines.

Justification
Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd is as considered operating in the pure
monopoly market structure because it is the only supplier of sewerage services,
operating and maintaining on sewage treatment plants and pipelines in Malaysia.
Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd has a monopoly over the sewerage services,
operating and maintaining on sewage treatment plants and pipelines in Malaysia
and it has sole control over the price. Besides, Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd
is selling unique services which is claimed to be non substitutable. For example:
Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd provides sewerage service like no other firm
did, so if costumers want to get the services from Indah Water Konsortium Sdn
Bhd, they must pay them

Maxis
Products
Maxis provide a variety of mobile communication products and services. They
offer prepaid call plans, monthly subscription plans, international roaming, MMS
and WAP.

Justification
Maxis is considered operating in the oligopoly market structure because here
have other communication company like digi, celcom, and Umobile. Maxis and
digi provide the postpaid service to customers but the price of both are different
like maxis is RM28 free 200min voice call and 100 SMS, digi is RM43 free
200min and 200 SMS. They can set the price as low as possible but still have
minimum profit to earn so they are retain long run. Strategy of Maxis playing are
good network coverage around Malaysia, good deal and special offers for
different age groups and also target group and always the first to introduce new
mobile plans that why Maxis stand at the first of the telecommunication market.

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ility_Report2012_2013.pdf
Privatisationof sewage treatment and solid waste disposal
Theprivatisation of sewage treatment in 1993 in Malaysia was a major financialfailure, as the
company which was awarded the contract made huge losses and hadto be bought back by the
government in June 2000. Indah Water Konsortium (IWK),a company formed in 1993, was given a 28year contract and assigned theresponsibility of operating public sewage treatment facilities.
Thecompany did not do well partly because a significant proportion of the publicrefused to pay their
sewage bills, which had been previously paid undermunicipal charges. The treatment of sewage and
wastewater remains in adeplorable state. Moreover, the company failed to treat water effectively.
In1999, less than 17% of the 5,409 treatment plants run by IWK complied withgovernment discharge
standards.[4]
Theprivatisation of solid waste disposal services in 1995 experienced severaldelays and was not fully
implemented. Fourregional consortiums were chosen to manage solid waste. Before privatisationitself
is implemented, a Municipal Solid Waste Act has to be formulated. Thegovernment agreed that the
consortiums could take over in stages by means of aninterim service contract before the bill is
passed. The local authorities willpay for the services rendered by the consortium. Our concern is that
uponprivatisation, the companies will charge consumers directly and increase fees.
Meanwhile,solid waste management continues to be a serious problem for many urban
centres.Sanitary and waste problems are magnified significantly in high density, lowerincome urban
areas with low cost apartments, squatters and other settlementsoccupied by low-income groups.

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