Malaysia Broadband News

THERE is already a washing machine that can be programmed by its user using the Internet. And maybe, one day your favourite potted plant may tweet you that it needs to be watered.


A report says that beverage companies are already tracking the weather to know the change so that they can serve their customers better and retailers are finding new ways to reach out to new markets.

According to Malaysian editorial, The New Straits Times Press, restaurants in Kuala Lumpur (the largest city in Malaysia) are now required to have Wi-Fi. Enforcement of the new law will begin in April of this year, and is now a “mandatory prerequisite for food operators when they apply for their licence to open a new restaurant or when existing operators renew their licence.”

South East Asia’s leading 4G service provider Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (“P1”) expects to be fully IPv6 ready by end of 2012 in bracing for the depletion of IPv4 Internet addresses. The company has already completed phase two of three phases of the compliance exercise.

With the federal gov­ernment targeting broadband penetra­tion rates of 75 per cent by the end of 2015, much work remains to be done in Sabah, which, at 33 per cent, has the lowest penetration rate of all Malaysia’s states.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 (Bernama) -- The national fixed line and wireless broadband penetration rate had reached 81 per cent of populated areas, the Dewan Negara was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR--The Malaysian government has awarded long term evolution (LTE) licenses to nine telco companies, albeit under specific conditions. However, the move has prompted an industry analyst to question whether the market will be able to support that many players, while a market player also questions the validity of some of the spectrum allocations.

The cutting-edge 4G technology is getting a timely boost with the setting up of a Southeast Asia's first 4G LTE TDD* Technology Experience Centre and Test Lab in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This breakthrough is the result of the collaboration between Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd ("P1"), P1's consulting arm Packet One International Pte Ltd ("P1i"), and ZTE Corporation ("ZTE"). It also gains support from China Mobile Communications Co. Ltd Research Institute ("China Mobile").

Norway's Telenor ASA is in talks with Malaysia's government about raising its stake in local telecommunications firm DiGi.Com Bhd , Telenor's Asia chief said in an interview with the Business Times newspaper published on November 11 2011.


Telenor used to own 61 percent of DiGi but sold a 10.2 percent stake to Time DotCom Bhd in 2007 for 1.61 billion ringgit ($510.9 million), to comply with the government's foreign shareholding rule. Telenor now owns 49 percent of DiGi.

Target of 1.1 million premises for its high-speed broadband UniFI service by year-end.


Its executive vice president (consumer), Imri Mokhtar, said to-date the subscriber base has reached one million premises and the company was confident of achieving its target.

PETALING JAYA: Nilamas Corp Bhd is set to showcase a team that will take on giant Astro All Asia Networks plc in the battle for eyeballs in the local pay-TV market.


The market will be demanding answers from Nilamas as to how it can take on Astro when other players in the past have failed to do so.