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ETP ANNUAL REPORT 2011
Ensuring Broadband for All
The goal of this EPP is to increase
broadband accessibility by designating
broadband access as an essential utility
for consumers, like water and electricity,
and bridging the digital divide in our
nation. This is a practice that is already in
place in other countries such as Finland
where universal broadband access is
legally mandated. The United Kingdom
and Sweden have also announced
similar plans.
The focus is primarily on easing the
provisioning of fibre-optic cables through
readily available ducts, particularly for
new residential areas, and the gazetting
of landed and rooftop sites for wireless
infrastructure.
This initiative will result in RM1.7 billion
in GNI contribution and create 5,468 new
jobs by 2020.
Extending Reach
In Malaysia, urban areas enjoy particularly
high broadband subscription rates of up to
60 per cent, in contrast to the sub-urban,
rural and remote rates of 25 per cent, 20 per
cent and 15 per cent respectively. This EPP
aims to drive up broadband subscription
levels in non-urban areas to as much as 90
per cent of households in 2020, resulting
in 3.4 million new broadband subscribers.
The forecast for the corresponding GNI
impact is RM2.4 billion and a total of 2,090
new jobs created.
The initiatives under this EPP mainly utilise
a shared infrastructure approach to reduce
costs and public-private partnerships.
Among them are the formation of a
consortium by wireless service providers
to actively share infrastructure to lower the
cost of providing access and enabling the
private sector to utilise MCMC’s Universal
Service Provision (USP) fund’s contributor
utilisation clause to build the necessary
infrastructure for rural and remote areas.
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It is expected that 0.75 million new fixed
broadband subscribers, 1.92 million new
mobile data subscribers and 2.4 million
new voice subscribers to sign up for these
services by 2020.
Achievements
To address the access gaps (mostly in
urban areas), the Malaysian Cabinet
approved and made amendments to the
Uniform Building By-Laws (Undang-undang
Kecil 25 and 27) 1984 Act that requires
all developers to provide broadband
infrastructure (e.g. internal ducting with
copper/fibre cable, external ducting
without cables and manholes without
cable) for all new housing developments.
The National Council for Local Government
subsequently accepted the announcement
in May 2011 and all states are now in the
process of adopting the amendment at
the state level.
Achievements
The Community Broaband Centre initiative
led by MCMC focuses on providing ICT
services to the community in rural areas.
To date, there are 252 centres in operation
nationwide, providing internet services
at a very affordable rate to the rural
community.
Kampung Tanpa Wayar is an initiative
inspired by the Minister of Information,
Communications and Culture. It is part of
A community broadband centre in Selangor
The local councils of Kuala Lumpur
and Kota Kinabalu have adopted the
‘Connected@City’ programme to increase
broadband adoption among SMEs and
businesses through an annual license
renewal requirement. The Mayors of the
two cities have announced that business
operators (e.g. food and beverages outlets,
hotels, universities, shopping malls) are
encouraged to offer wireless internet
facilities.
Moving Forward
The team will continue to encourage
other major cities like Johor Bahru and
Kuantan to launch the Connected@City
programme.
MCMC’s ongoing efforts towards realising
the USP objectives outlined under the
Communications and Multimedia Act 1998,
Universal Service Provision Regulations
2002 (the Regulations) with regard to the
provisioning of collective and individual
Internet service access in underserved
areas.
To date, the service has been commissioned
in more than 1,300 villages and 215
towers have been erected. A total of 1,588
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