"You do not get any braking action advise from the tower because they have no way of measuring it."
Of course, the tower is simply passing on the report from previous crews, something that will happen in a perfect world.
But what if there are no previous crews? Often controllers in some provincial ports in Asia/Pac wont understand when you request info about braking action and I assume many crews do not report it.
So in the absence of braking action reports, is there another way to judge what the expected braking will be?