P1 hit over 350k subscribers, now has 50% coverage

Packet One Networks (P1) is looking forward to a significant year ahead in strengthening its position in the 4G space.

Its Chief Executive Officer, Michael Lai said the company is still young but is a fast growing and dynamic organisation. “I am proud to say that P1 has achieved so much in just over three years. In this short period of time, we have established ourselves at the forefront of 4G technology movement in South East Asia. We have also rapidly expanded our coverage in 2011 alone by adding over 650 sites to a total of 1500 sites today. This means we now cover 50 per cent of the population,” said Lai.

The WiMAX operator currently has a subscriber base of over 356,000 users in Malaysia as of the third quarter of 2011. P1 intends to cross the 500,000 subscriber mark this year and so far has invested about RM700 million in capex for its service rollout.

“2012 is going to be a historic year for P1,” said the CEO. MalaysianWireless believes that P1 is set to roll out High Speed Broadband Service by Q3 this year as a result of the partnership with TM back in October.

On top of that, P1 is also expected to roll out WiMAX service in East Malaysia, especially Sabah. As the company prepares itself for LTE, it plans to release a dual-mode 4G WiMAX/LTE chipset which can be used in mobile devices. Other plans includes setting up a Southeast Asia’s first 4G Experience Centre and Test Lab. This new facility allow operators and vendors to experience wireless speeds of 120 Mbps and beyond. It will also support IPV6 by the end of this year.

A key area that P1 has been focusing on is in the education sector. Several of the schools around the vicinity of P1’s headquarters in Petaling Jaya have been outfitted with P1 4G service under the P1-Edu program. This year, more schools are expected to be under the program according to P1.

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  • http://profile.yahoo.com/ODDWXM5AGDT4LZHAVNZAFOC6LU Pojik Budi

    How laughable. Their support is horrible. 6 months and no change. Worse in fact in my area despite the claim that it is within coverage area. Only after complaints registered with MCMC, they scrambled to rectify my connectivity problem and I’m a paying customer. If best effort connectivity means coming down to 0kbps, I wonder where’s the effort. Waiver request have been ignored repeatedly. They should be fined for false promises and misleading advertisement. They do not have the capacity to support that many users yet.

    • http://malaysianwireless.com/ Kugan

      Hi there. Are you still a P1 customer? If yes, pls drop me an email and I will refer this to the P1 management. You may find my email address in the contact page of this blog.

  • Boon Siang Ng

    50% coverage meaning covering what area? If check the coverage maps in P1 website, Penang only has less than 10% covered. The 50% coverage is just misleading. 

    • http://malaysianwireless.com/ Kugan

      50% of Peninsular Malaysia, human population areas. The coverage map not be updated as I was told that new P1 sites go up almost every week.