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Today, The Edge reported that U Mobile has agreed to sell its entire 100,000 shares in Digital Nasional Bhd (DNB) for RM100,000. The shares will be acquired by CelcomDigi, Maxis, YTL Power International, and the Minister of Finance Inc (MOF Inc), according to filings with Bursa Malaysia.

Today, Maxis announced a major expansion of its fibre network infrastructure through deployment in Penang. The company's new target goal is to connect more than 100,00 homes in the state by 2027, rolling out across all districts such as Jelutong, Georgetown, Batu Maung, Bayan Lepas, and Bayan Baru, alongside key locations in Mainland Penang.

Today, U Mobile has named Huawei Malaysia and ZTE Malaysia as its technology partners for Malaysia’s Next Gen 5G network. The signing ceremony was witnessed by YB Datuk Fahmi Fadzil, Communications Minister of Malaysia, and Li Lecheng, Party Secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China, at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC).

To enhance mobile connectivity further in Malaysia, CelcomDigi Berhad and U Mobile Sdn Bhd have announced a partnership agreement. With this initiative, both telcos will be sharing a total of 100 Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN) sites across Malaysia, with each party committing to 50 sites each.

It's hard to imagine putting down our phones since these gadgets have become an integral part of our lives. Pekka Lundmark, the CEO of Nokia said otherwise, though. During the World Economic Forum 2022, he believes and predicts that 6G is quite likely to make our phones obsolete.

TM announces that it has restored 85% of flood-impacted services. After the successful restoration of the core services, 84,274 affected customers can now be online again. The company promised that it'll "continue this rigorous service restoration exercise to ensure the remainder of the customers is able to be connected soonest."

If you recall, our Prime Minister Muhyiddin announced that 5G connectivity will be ready by the end of 2021. While the tech community are taking it with a dose of salt, it is quite evident that 3G is phasing out as both Celcom and unifi will shut it down gradually. That said, there are still plenty of 3G-only users especially in the rural areas of Malaysia.

It seems that Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo recently mentioned that Apple might be releasing iPhones equipped with their own in-house designed 5G modem somewhere around 2023. While not much is known in regards to the Malaysia release date of the said phone, it does give us a better idea of what to expect when it is available in the local market.

Based on a statement by gizmochina.com, it seems that China will most likely be spearheading the development of 6G network as the country currently holds more patents compared to the US. But that’s not all, additional reports also state that Apple, as well as Samsung, are also ramping up the development of 6G network as well.

It seems that a report by globaltimes.cn, it seems that Huawei is keen on launching a test satellite somewhere around July 2021 in order to perform 6G technology verification. With that in mind, Huawei plans to launch its 6G network somewhere around 2030 which was reported to be around 50 times faster than 5G.