KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia declared on Wednesday (March 16) that it would press ahead with its original plan to roll out the fifth-generation (5G) wireless network under state-owned Digital Nasional (DNB), spurning the powerful telco lobby that had been demanding that the government allow a second operator.
The new plan comes with an offer to private mobile operators to become stakeholders by subscribing to up to 70 per cent of equity in the state-owned 5G monopoly. This equity offer is conditional upon them agreeing to acquire spectrum from DNB under a wholesale agreement.
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