News & Reviews:   5G technology

The Malaysian Sports Event (SUKMA) 2024 will make history in the country when it will be the first SUKMA to be broadcast through 5G-Advanced (5G-A) technology, allowing the organizers to broadcast it with ultra-low latency (ultra-low latency) and efficiency higher for live broadcasts. Now, a few local telcos have joined the fray. So, what should you know about it?

When the government first started talking about 5G a few years ago, it was clear that we consumers wouldn't be able to benefit anytime soon. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, industries and Malaysians quickly began using the Internet for things like video meetings, ecommerce, online events and more.

This explosive growth meant that there was a real need to expedite the growth of 5G in Malaysia. Today, we want to briefly walk you through how much 5G has progressed here in Malaysia exactly in the last few years. Where are we so far?

A few days, ago, we reported that the Malaysian government is working on making 5G service more affordable than 4G. How they plan to do it is anyone's guess, but Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz just made an official announcement today about the cost.

In gearing up for the upcoming 5G technology phase in Malaysia, our Minister of Communications and Telecommunications, Annuar Musa just gave us a small update. At the end of last week, he stated that the government is planning to make 5G services more affordable than 4G.

With 5G technology picking back up its feet to the tech world, Qualcomm was secretly working on a new chipset all this while. Introducing the Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 5G chipset, it will be the first 600-series that is integrated with 5G technology.

Today, our local telcos - Celcom, Digi and Maxis - have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This initiative is for the three companies to explore leveraging each other’s resources to deploy a wider, more efficient fibre network for Malaysia. This will enable improved 4G connectivity nationwide, in line with the government’s NFCP target.

As a tech gadget website, we have already written plenty of 5G smartphones news and their potential. Smartphone brands are already eager to release their 5G devices even though 5G technology is still in its infancy. With still a long way to go, it is understandable that many of us don't care (but you should, really). 

Sooner or later, the rollout of 5G technology is set to hit Malaysian shores in the not-so-distant future. Thanks to efforts made by Malaysian telecommunications provider Celcom, we're beginning to see the literally-life-changing benefits of the technology. In this article, here's another reminder of how 5G will impact our future and why it is exciting.

As Malaysia begins implementation of 5G with their testbed expansion, Huawei recently weighed in with beneficial technologies that Huawei have achieved and what could be possible for Malaysians with Huawei’s 5G tech. With Huawei developing 5G tech since 2009 and employing 180000 global employees, 25000 of which are focusing on mostly research and development in the Huawei Ox Horn Campus, beneficial 5G tech could impact every sector, of course, there’s also faster download speeds, wider coverage areas and lower latency as well.