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Malaysia - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts
Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd, July 2011, Pages: 96
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the trends and developments in the telecommunications and digital media markets in Malaysia. Subjects covered include:
Key Statistics;
- Market and Industry Overviews and Analyses;
- Regulatory Environment and Development;
- Major Telecom Players (fixed and mobile);
- Infrastructure;
- Digital Media;
- Mobile Voice and Data Market;
- Internet, including VoIP and IPTV;
- Broadband (fixed and mobile);
- Scenario Forecasts (fixed-line, mobile and broadband subscribers).
Key Highlights:
- 121% of Malaysia's almost 29 million people had a mobile telephone service by March 2011
- After a slow start after launch in 2008, 3G services were having a big impact on the market by 2011 with an estimated one in three mobile subscribers being a 3G customer
- after surprisingly little interest in broadband access for many years, Malaysia's broadband internet penetration was increasing rapidly through 2010 and into 2011
- broadband in Malaysia had achieved a 17% population penetration by end-2010
- most significantly, the government was able to claim one of its targets had been achieved with over 55% broadband household penetration coming into 2011
- the strategy for building a National Broadband Network was well underway by 2011, with Telekom Malaysia moving rapidly on the roll-out of its government-sanctioned High-Speed Broadband (HSBB) project
- Following the launch of the first stage of the HSBB services in 2010, Telekom Malaysia was steadily signing up new subscribers to its fibre-based network
- growth in Malaysia's fixed-line services, however, has continued to ‘flat-line' with national fixed-line penetration stalled at around 17%.
Malaysia: - key telecom parameters – 2010 – 2011
With extensive application of modern technologies, Malaysia has one of the more advanced telecom networks in the developing world.
Malaysia has been working towards a clear national objective to see it ranked as a fully developed nation by the year 2020. This Vision 2020 was a concept introduced by the former Prime Minister Mr Mahathir in 1991 when he launched the Sixth Malaysia Plan. In other words, the task of building an advanced telecom sector has had strong links to national pride; certainly for a period in the 1990s the country was busy promoting itself as a regional high technology hub. In recent times, however, it has adopted a quieter profile and simply gone about the task of putting what might be described as a technologically progressive economy in place. With its widespread application of modern technologies such as fibre optics, wireless transmission, digitalisation and satellite services, Malaysia has been steadily working towards achieving its goal.
The generally strong growth across the country's telecom sector inevitably brought with it a flurry of investment interest and activity. The telecommunications market in Malaysia has experienced privatisation in all facets of the industry and a general opening up of the market with a significant number of new licences being granted. While still in an expansion phase the Malaysia's telecom sector has undergone some important restructuring. This has involved the regulator progressively introducing reforms. In the meantime, the telecom companies have been doing battle in an increasingly competitive and changing market. It is true to say that the last decade has seen healthy overall growth in Malaysia's telecom sector. At the same time, substantial government participation in Information & Communications Technology (ICT) development has also been a particular characteristic of the Malaysian market.
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