The Malaysian telecoms regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), has said that it expects to see an increasing number of telecoms operators link up once Long Term Evolution-based (LTE-based) service rollouts get underway. According to The Star Online, the watchdog’s chairman, Datuk Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi, said of the likelihood for network sharing agreements between operators: ‘In fact, they (industry players) are rationalising and we are happy to see smart partnerships all over.’ Such claims come after the MCMC awarded nine companies spectrum in the 2.6GHz band; as previously reported by CommsUpdate, in December 2011, more than a year after first announcing plans to hand a number of operators frequencies, the regulator outlined details of which companies would benefit from the allocation. Newcomer Puncak Semangat – a company controlled by billionaire Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary – will be given the largest amount of spectrum, with the regulator to hand it a 30MHz LTE-suitable block in the 2.6GHz band, while seven of the other eight players will be assigned a 20MHz block, with those being mobile network operators Celcom Axiata, DiGi Telecommunications, Maxis Communications and U Mobile, and WiMAX operators Packet One (P1), REDtone and YTL Communications.
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OVETEL MCMC sees rationalisation amid impending 4G rollouts
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