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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) today announced that the successful applicants for the 2.3GHz broadband wireless access spectrum tender exercise are as follows:
Area of operation: Peninsular Malaysia
Bizsurf (M) Sdn Bhd
MIB Comm Sdn Bhd
Asiaspace Dotcom Sdn Bhd
Area of operation: East Malaysia
Redtone-CNX Broadband Sdn Bhd
The Commission expects the winners to quickly roll out the service to 25% of the population in the area given to them by the end of this year with a service provision of at least 1MBps at affordable rates.
By the end of third year, it is expected that they will be able to roll services to at least 40% of the population in the areas given to them.
It is expected that each of the companies will invest between RM250m – RM300m in the first three years of implementation of Wimax.
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