PENANG, Feb 18 (Bernama) — YTL Communications Sdn. Bhd. announced today the launch of Terragraph market pilot in Georgetown, Penang to deliver a reliable, affordable and high-speed broadband connection to the heritage city. The deployment, supported by Facebook, would be the first large-scale market pilot in Asia and is aligned with the government’s efforts to invest in and further improve on the country’s digital infrastructure to ensure greater availability of broadband services.
Telecommunications companies, businesses, and other stakeholders are investing in infrastructure and connectivity capabilities to facilitate the adoption of bandwidth-intensive technologies in an effort to usher in the era of Industry 4.0 and encourage a digital leapfrog for Malaysia. Coverage and adoption of fixed broadband services must be further developed to scale to the country’s aspiration, with the aim to achieve broadband connections that are double the speed at half the price.
