News & Reviews:   Malaysian Telcos

The Ministry of Communications and Digital (KKD) has revealed that the Digital Nasional Bhd (DNB) share subscription agreement (SSA) is expected to be inked sometime next week. Its Minister, Fahmi Fadzil confirmed the matter recently after the agreement was up in the air and delayed several times.

As we slowly but surely make our way into 5G and 2019, MCMC (Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission) recently came out with a report about the RM2.32 million compound amount of 63 various offences made by telcos in Malaysia up to February 2019. The various offences include failure to comply with Mandatory Standard of Quality of Service (MSQoS) in network and customer services, fake registrations, removal of competitors’ promotional material, failure to deal reasonably with consumers and adequately address consumer complaints and other provisions in the Communications & Multimedia Act 1998 along with failure to handle mobile number portability requests by consumers.