3G Launched in Malaysia

Telekom Malaysia says that it has completed six months of a 3G services trial and has now commercially launched its service. However, the true capabilities of 3G will not be launched in the early phase as Telekom Malaysia says the technology is still in its infancy stage.

Telekom Malaysia is targeting up to 300 customers for the initial introduction and hopes to secure more customers by the end of the year. The service is provided in various parts of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) and Klang Valley.

Telekom Malaysia started trials last July with five partners. Ericsson was assigned the Cyberjaya area; Nokia, The Mines and Serdang; Alcatel, Petaling Jaya; China's Huawei, central Kuala Lumpur; and Simens/NEC, Keramat, PWTC and Gurney areas.

Each "network" is managed independently, and initially roaming between the separate zones of coverage will not be possible."

Posted to the site on 2nd February 2004