Industry is split on whether to stick to single wholesale network model under state-controlled DNB. Read more at straitstimes.com.
is still up in the air despite it already being rolled out to half the country’s populated areas and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Friday bringing forward the deadline for 80 per cent coverage by a year to end-2023.
The 80 per cent target is the metric used to measure full nationwide availability in all major towns, with much slower progress expected in the more remote areas. In his Budget 2023 speech, Mr Anwar, who is also finance minister, acknowledged that DNB had reached 50 per cent of populated areas at the end of 2022 – a claim disputed by Mr Fahmi in January – and set the new coverage target “at an affordable price”.
It had then mooted an SWN led by a consortium of mobile network operators , but despite their agreement, little progress was made by the time Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia president Muhyiddin Yassin led his party out of PH and took power in March 2020. YTL Communications and state-controlled Telekom Malaysia have agreed to a 20 per cent stake each in DNB, while DiGi and Celcom have 12.5 per cent each ahead of their impending merger, although agreements have yet to be inked.
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