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Malaysia ahead of Indonesia in Several Telecom Regulations

December 10, 2008 By: Syahrial Ali Category: General

Malaysia is a neighbor country of Indonesia. It has 2 separate lands, mainland and north Malaysia in Kalimantan. In several telecommunication regulations, Malaysia is ahead of Indonesia. Let’s see the 3 advanced cases below: 3G, WiMAX and Number Portability.

3G:

Malaysia released 3G licenses since July 2002, far before Indonesia who release the licensed on early 2006. Malaysia allocated 3 blocks, but at the tender the winners were only 2 companies namely: Telekom Malaysia  dan UMTS Sdn Bhd.  Both companies were already operated. On November 2006, the 3rd and 4th licenses were released to TIME dotcom Sdn Bhd and MiTV. (more…)

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