With a ground-breaking nationwide high-speed broadband project underway and strong ambitions to become a hub for south east Asia, Telekom Malaysia has a number of reasons to look forward to 2012. Alex Hawkes investigates.
Malaysia sits in the middle of two very contrasting developments in south east Asia. To one side it has the region’s most established ICT hub, Singapore, while on the other resides the still-to-be-realised potential of Thailand as well as the untapped Indochinese markets of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. As a result, the country and its largest telecoms operator Telekom Malaysia (TM) are flush with opportunities on both the regional and global stage.
This slice of geo-political good luck has been actively embraced by TM. By some considerable distance, the company is the largest fixed-line operator in Malaysia, having chosen to strongly focus on its fixed-line, high speed broadband and IP businesses since divesting its mobile arm in 2008. Meanwhile it has signed a series of agreements with key global players and been a leading light in a number of the Asian markets most recent flourish of subsea cable...
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