Malaysia Broadband

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 ...

Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s (TM) and RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network have entered into a partnership that enables RTL CBS Extreme HD to be aired in Malaysia beginning 1 April 2014. This new channel is made available via TM’s IPTV service, HyypTV, offering UniFi customers with action adventure, reality series and extreme sports content.

Telekom Malaysia entered into an investment agreement with Green Packet Berhad and SK Telecom Co. Ltd to acquire a 57% stake in Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. [From left: Jung Ho Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer, SK Telecom Co., Ltd; Datuk Che Azemi Haron, Deputy Secretary General II, Ministry of Communications and Multimedia; Dato’ Sri Abdul ...

Early this month, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) formed an alliance together with fifteen (15) leading global telcos to set up a consortium for the establishment of a new state-of-the-art submarine cable system –the South East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 5 or better known as SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable system. NEC and Alcatel-Lucent was recently awarded hundreds of millions ...

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) recently sealed an agreement with Etisalat, a fixed line and wireless services provider in the Middle East. This collaboration will enable TM to leverage on Etisalat’s SmartHub facility at Fujairah Cable Landing Station (CLS) to deliver its content, Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX), Internet Exchange (IX) and high speed data services for its customers in the region.

TIME dotCom Berhad, a data and telecommunications solutions provider, today reported a 61% jump in its operating profits for the financial year ended 31 December 2013 to RM118.0 million from a year earlier, driven by robust local and global data demand. The Group’s core pre-tax profits for the same period expanded 58% to RM116.2 million on the back of increased ...

Telekom Malaysia today announced its promotion called “The Best Ever Hypp-Normous Deal”. The promotion has been available since November 2013. Via this offer, new and all existing UniFi customers can upgrade automatically to UniFi VIP 10 (10Mbps) or VIP 20 (20 Mbps) when they subscribe to a HyppTV pack at RM50 before 31 March 2014. Details below:

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) has signed an agreement with Level 3 Communications, an American based company that provides global communications services to enterprise, government and carrier customers. [Rozaimy Rahman, Executive Vice President, Global & Wholesale, TM (right) exchanging documents with Gary Breauninger, Group Vice President of Wholesale Sales, Level 3 (left), signifying the collaboration between both companies for Internet localisation ...

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) have inked a wholesale bandwidth collaborative deal with Celcom Axiata Berhad (Celcom), through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Celcom Networks Sdn Bhd (Celcom Networks) and DiGi Telecommunications Sdn. Bhd. (DiGi) for TM Next-Gen Backhaul Services. [Datuk Che Azemi Haron, Deputy Secretary General, Ministry of Communications and Multimedia, Dato’ Sri Shazalli Ramly, Chief Executive Officer, Celcom Axiata Berhad (Celcom), Tan ...

The first of three Inmarsat-5 satellites forming the Global Xpress network blasted off on a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 8 December. [Photograph shows the launch of Inmarsat-5 F1 from Kazakhstan at 12.12 GMT] Global Xpress, the fleet of spacecraft is the result of a US$1.6 billion investment by Inmarsat, which will create the world’s first ...

Formis Development Sdn Bhd (Formis) has signed a 3-year service agreement agreement with Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) for HSBB service. Under this agreement, TM will be providing HSBB (Access) and HSBB (Transmission) services as well as Wholesale Internet Access to Formis. The agreement will allow Formis to extend its fibre-based service offering – Ohana – in Malaysia to over 1.456 ...