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Malaysia Awards 4G Licenses to Eight Mobile Networks
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The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has awarded radio spectrum to eight companies to provide LTE services in the 2.6Ghz spectum bands.
The eight companies are, in alphabetical order, Celcom Axiata, DiGi Telecommunications, Maxis, Packet One Networks, Puncak Semangat, REDtone Marketing, U Mobile and YTL Communications.
MCMC Chairman Dato' Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi said, "MCMC is always committed to finding the right balance between the needs of consumers, investors and other stakeholders of the industry. We believe that the balance struck between ensuring healthy competition in the market and promoting industry development will help spur continued growth for existing service providers and provide opportunity for new market entrants."
Existing service providers may use the 2600 MHz allocation to further expand and enhance the capacity of their mobile broadband networks to meet increasing consumer demands whilst the introduction of a new player is expected to bring fresh ideas and innovation to the market.
Service providers are also expected to enter into smart partnerships and sharing agreements between them which include spectrum and radio access network sharing in order to utilise larger bandwidths, lower the cost of roll out and offer better 4G-experience and affordability to consumers. Additionally, smart partnerships mean shared infrastructure thus reducing the duplication of physical transmission towers. 4G wholesale MVNO will also be offered to other service providers that do not get access to the allocation.
Tags: [mcmc] [lte] [4g license] [Malaysia]
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