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Local mobile operator, U Mobile announced today that it will be terminating its network agreement with Maxis, which will be completed by December 2018.

Celcom has 10.25 million mobile subscribers as of first quarter 2017. It lost 310k subscribers between January 2017 and March 2017.

U Mobile now offers up to 375Mbps download speeds in Johor Bahru, powered by Huawei. It is also the 1st Telco in Malaysia to use 4T4R with MIMO technology.

Celcom and Ericsson demonstrated the first 5G technology trial in Malaysia achieving a peak throughput up to 18Gbps and latency as low as 3ms.

Maxis now has 10.67 million revenue generating subscribers, as of 1Q17. It lost 178K subscribers in the latest quarter.

There are now 11.78 million Digi mobile subscribers, as of first quarter 2017, down (-523k) from 12.3 million subscribers it had in 4Q16.

Celcom Axiata has unveiled its LTE-Advanced Pro network called Lightning Fast LTE, offering Internet speeds beyond 400Mbps (depending on the device capability), from August 2017 onwards.

Sarawak Multimedia and Communications Authority to be set up, plans to invest RM1 billion in the construction of more communication towers.

Celcom Axiata unveiled its new key management team. The Telco intends to focus on customer experience and become a Digital company within two years.

Maxis lost some 768k subs in the past year, now 11.93 million mobile subscribers as 4Q16. There are 8.96 million prepaid & 2.97 million postpaid subs.