Time dotCom

TIME dotCom Berhad (TIME) has named Rossana Rashidi as its Deputy Chief Executive Officer. Rossana will assist Chief Executive Officer, Afzal Abdul Rahim, to manage TIME’s enlarged group, across its domestic fixed line telecommunications, data centres and regional wholesale bandwidth businesses. Rossana(picture) spent almost a decade at Maxis Berhad where she played in key role in the growth of the ...

TIME dotCom Bhd (TIME) has launched TIME Fibre 100Mbps Home Broadband yesterday. The fibre service is available at RM179 a month and is being offerred to 100,000 homes in the Klang Valley and Penang. Details of the TIME Fibre 100Mbps Home Broadband as below:

AIMS Group (AIMS) a carrier-neutral data center based in Malaysia, today announced their expansion of its Managed Services portfolio that currently includes different levels of IT infrastructure and application hosting at the data center. AIMS’ newest addition is a cloud-model based service known as ‘Caching by AIMS’. According to Henry Chuah, Vice President, New Business, the new managed service is ...

TIME dotCom Berhad  has entered into a construction and maintenance agreement of the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine cable system connecting Malaysia to Korea and Japan. The APG is a 10,000 km international fibre optic cable system that will link Malaysia to Korea and Japan with seven branches to other Asian countries. The cable system is scheduled to be ready ...

The enlarged TIME Group now includes the AIMS Group, one of South East Asia’s carrier neutral data centres; Global Transit Communications Sdn Bhd (GTC), a regional Internet and bandwidth provider to other telecommunication companies; and Global Transit Ltd (GTL), which holds a 10% interest in the Unity Cable System. Speaking at the press conference after TIME’s 15th Annual General Meeting ...

TIME dotCom Berhad’s (TIME) profit before tax (PBT) grew to RM29.6 million in Q1 2012 (Q1,12) from RM22.9 million against the same quarter in 2011 (Q1,11). The 29% PBT growth was driven on the back of a 16% revenue growth for the quarter, reaching RM81.3 million in Q1 12 from RM70.1 million in Q1 11.The revenue growth was driven by ...

TIME dotCom has partnered with Astro to provide IPTV service across the Klang Valley and Penang. The service will be available to 11,400 homes today and an estimated 167,000 homes in over 1,500 buildings by end-December 2011. Press release will be updated below once I receive it.

DiGi has signed up with TIME dotCom to power up part of its mobile backhaul in peninsular Malaysia using TIME’s fibre network. The collaboration is the first peninsular-wide deployment of a full optical switched fibre network to support mobile backhaul traffic. Under the ten year agreement, worth RM139 million, TIME will fiberise, maintain and support parts of DiGi’s backhaul links ...

Time dotCom CEO Afzal Abdul Rahim talks about the company’s sixth straight quarter of profits against the backdrop of his 2-year-old turnaround plan, its growing global bandwidth business and the interplay between being a yield versus a growth stock and dividends. He also discusses its recent 339 million ringgit acquisitions of Global Transit and AIMS in the context of valuations, ...

Time dotCom (TdC) has proposed to buy three companies for RM339 million. Those 3 companies are AIMS Group for RM128 million, Global Transit Communications Sdn Bhd (GTC) for RM106 million and Global Transit Ltd (GTL) for RM105 million. The acquisition will be financed by RM90.9 million in cash and RM248.1 million in shares, and is expected to be completed within ...

After wiring up several blocks of buildings in Kuala Lumpur’s Mont Kiara, Time dotCom Bhd (TDC) now wants to connect 300 buildings in the KL City Centre area before the year is out. “We are looking to add 1,000 buildings by the end of next year,” said TDC chief executive officer Afzal Abdul Rahim. With an additional 300 buildings to ...

“Well, using one of the Apple Mac Books provided with a 50Mb/s connection for the demonstration, this writer downloaded several You Tube videos via the download site http://keepvid.com and each download stream averaged about 1 Mb/s, while an about a 500MB sized video file downloaded at around 500 Kb/s or about one-hundredth of the connection’s maximum speed, which is not ...

Remember this post? Its confirmed that Time dotCom(Tdc) has launched Fibre-to-the-home at selected location in Mont Kiara. Details: 2Mbps-RM149/month 5Mbps-RM199/month 10Mbps-RM329/month There is also something called the “Boost” packages that will boost the speed to 50Mbps. It appears that the speed(50Mbps) does not work well with XP/Vista but works fine on Macs. Update:Here’s the detailed packages: TIME Fibre Broadband BOOST ...

At the point of writing, Time dotCom (Tdc) only has about 3.5% equity interest in DiGi or about 27.5 million shares. It earlier had 7.1% shares in DiGi before it sold 3.6% of those shares(via Hakikat Pasti Sdn Bhd) through a private placement for $171.7 million or 604.95 million ringgit last week. Since TdC held those shares in 2007, it ...

Here’s my reply to a reader asking about VoIP services in Malaysia. There are lots of VoIP services out there, but here’s 3 VoIP services that I think is interesting. Time- Broadband Voice (Fixed Line Type) Time dotCom recently launched their VoIP service that both SME and consumers can afford. The cheapest package cost RM58 and local calls are charged ...