Malaysia Broadband

AirAsia has launched its on-board Wi-Fi service for instant messaging service today, now available on selected AirAsia flights. The service, known as roKKi Chats, allows guests to use only instant messaging apps while on-board. Each roKKi Chats token will be priced at RM8 for a total of 3MB data usage on WeChat, WhatsApp & LINE. As part of the launch, ...

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) announced the new Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (P1) board members and key management line-up earlier this month. Late September, TM emerges as the new holding company for P1 with a shareholding of 55.3%; and the remaining 44.7% is shared between Green Packet Berhad (31.1%) and SK Telecom Co., Ltd (13.6%). Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa, ...

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) announced the completion of the Investment Agreement for its partnership with Green Packet Berhad (Green Packet) and SK Telecom Co., Ltd (SK Telecom) for the three parties to share in the ownership and collaborate in the future growth of Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (P1), a WiMAX Internet provider in Malaysia. The agreement was first ...

Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has started the construction of South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) undersea cable system linking Singapore and France. With a total distance spanning approximately 20,000 km, the new 100G SEA-ME-WE 5 state-of-the-art submarine cable system will connect Singapore to Europe (Italy and France) and traverse Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Oman, ...

The number of LTE mobile broadband subscriptions worldwide reached the milestone of 250 million in the first quarter of 2014, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Ovum’s latest update to its World Cellular Data Metrics, which tracks mobile data usage and take-up including subscribers, deployments, revenues, mobile broadband usage, and SMS/MMS/data traffic, shows that the US is the world’s largest ...

TIME dotCom Berhad announced another quarter of double-digit growth in revenue for the three months ended 30 June 2014. The group posted revenue of RM155.7 million for the second quarter of 2014 (Q2 2014), an increase of RM21.6 million or 16.1% from the same period a year ago. The revenue growth was driven by higher data sales and improved data ...

TIME dotCom Berhad has invested in its second Trans-Pacific submarine cable system called FASTER that will connect Asia and North America in support of its global expansion initiatives. Together with five global service providers (China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Google, KDDI and SingTel as partners in FASTER), TIME, through its wholly owned Global Transit 2 Limited (GT2L) subsidiary, will ...

318 mobile operators have commercially launched 4G LTE networks and service in 111 countries, according to data released by GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) in its latest Evolution to LTE report. 51 LTE networks have launched so far in 2014. The total number of commercial LTE networks is expected to be more than 350 by the end of this year. ...

The AIMS Group (AIMS) today announces the first strategic alliance with IBM, to roll out and offer IBM’s Managed Security Services (MSS) in Malaysia. AIMS – the Southeast Asia leading carrier-neutral data services provider said it will offer its existing and new customers an enhanced range of high quality, managed security services from IBM, which is the world’s leading computing ...

Telekom Research & Development Sdn Bhd (TM R&D), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ZTE (Malaysia) Corporation Sdn Bhd (ZTE) to collaborate on next generation passive optical network (NGPON) research. The MoU encompasses joint NGPON research in contributing towards achieving the international standards through the strengthening of NGPON2 framework. Both ...

Telekom Malaysia, Malaysia’s fixed broadband champion, launched a new mobile messaging app called HyppMe on last Friday. Basically the mobile messaging app allows free voice and messaging to other HyppMe users. Local calls to mobile network in Malaysia is charged 8sen per minute and SMS is at 5sen. HyppMe works on Android and iOS devices. Calls to TM fixed line ...

The AIMS Group (AIMS) and INTI International University & Colleges (INTI) today announced a joint partnership under the ‘INTI Corporate Partner’ (ICP) initiative to provide INTI students with more industry-specific programmes that are crucial to prepare them for their future career and boost their employability. AIMS – one of the leading carrier-neutral data centres in Malaysia and South East Asia ...

TIME dotCom Berhad, the ASEAN-focused data and telecommunications solutions provider, today announced continued growth and steady performance for its first quarter ended 31 March 2014. Group revenue stood at RM131.9 million for the period. Excluding non-recurring income from one-off contracts and global bandwidth sales, revenue grew by 10% compared to the same quarter last year. Revenue growth in the period ...

TIME dotCom Berhad announced its participation in a consortium to build a new submarine cable system that will link Asia and Europe via the Middle East, further enhancing its global footprint. [AAE-1 Submarine Cable Map] Together with 16 international service providers, TIME will construct and maintain the Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) submarine cable system, a high-capacity cable system linking Asia and Europe ...

Malaysian Internet Exchange (MyIX) or also known as Persatuan Pengendali Internet Malaysia’, released its latest statistics on the country’s Internet traffic consumption last year –  that showed the biggest percentage jump in over a decade. MyIX Chairman, Chiew Kok Hin says, “In Year 2013, our statistics showed that Internet traffic in Malaysia increased by a whopping 51 per cent to ...