althou ecommerce has been around in Malaysia since the mid-90, it is still in its infancy stages even today...
Compared to other countries like Hong Kong and Europe, we have a lot of catching up to do.. The Malaysian broadband infrastructure also leaves much to b desired.
Broadband access is critical for the growth of e-commerce here. If u set up an online retail store, u will want to put many pictures of ur product for ur customers to see...
If u’re using dial-up, these pictures will take too long to load n that would make it less convenient to shop online...Sadly said, Malaysian websites hosted locally r at least 70% slower than other websites around the world.
It’ll b hard for us to compete with other e-commerce sites on a global level if our pages take too long too load...
The fastest site is Blooming.com.my – it takes an average of 1.7 seconds to load, and is faster than 63% of the websites around the world.
Another big issue is the lack of an easily accessible online payment system.(credit card) . It's v difficult for an e-commerce merchant 2apply for a credit card transaction service to include in their website...
