Think before you laugh. The main reason for the big 4 wanting the controlling stake (51%) between them is to effectively lock out other small players or would-be players. So they could then proceed with their thinly veiled price-fixing scheme. With DNB (if it actually took off), the entry barrier will be significantly lowered for small/new players. Before DNB, for a telco to have a decent coverage is to invest many many billions on the infrastructure. And becoming an MVNO (like what we have now) is not an option as one is still subjected to the infra partner (a full-fledged telco) thus would significantly lessen the chance for a small/new players to be a full-fledged telco. This is no doubt designed to further solidify the position of the big 4 at the expense of the end user like us. Thus my support for the government decision not to allow the big four demand for 51% controlling shares.

Valuation of the big 4 telcos will definitely drop.

Dont want to do big investment but want to have share back?

tell you guys one thing, many years ago CMHK (China Mobile Hong Kong) was a MVNO and it does not have 3G spectrum at all, it is a big company in China but not in Hong Kong.
CMHK was riding on someone else 3G network but its quality cannot be controlled, poor coverage / very slow speed on 3G network.

After a few years, HK gov had auctions for spectrum re-allocation and CMHK invested a lot on the 3G / 4G spectrum, also invest a lot on cell sites as well.
Now CMHK has its own network, not a MVNO anymore and offering affordable plan to people, especially CMHK mother company has advantage in China and it offers affordable China / Macau roaming plan as well... (like 1C2N service, call receiving is free in China / Macau, affordable price of 5G data roaming in China / Worldwide, etc..)

for such behavior DNB do all 5G cell site coverage, not only taking about technical side it would be difficult to handover as well, it would be a "single point of failure" as well. also discourage investment or innovation on 5G technology (for example, VoNR, 5G CA... etc...) because less of competition.

the 10 years contract with DNB is also less flexibility to carrier, 10 years later we may be talking 6G already and 5G may become very basic or cheap technology probably in other country, while our carriers are still bounding to that contract and paying expensive rental to DNB....

and I found a big issue today, Yes 4G is not able to distinguish the traffic is from 4G or 5G, when I do the speedtest from my phone using 5G network, LTE data consume first and I received sms that LTE prepaid data is finished while the plan I have also contains unlimited 5G data.

it seems that not only about how to allocate (or sell? ) the DNB share to different carriers , on technical aspect it was unable to handle smooth handover from 5G to 4G, not able to distinguish 4G/5G data and deduct wrong data from my plan (fortunately it is free 5G trial and all data are redeemed from Shopee).

My personal recommendation is until all of those issues are fixed, otherwise it is not worth to pay extra $$ to have 5G plan now.

Interesting, Edotco Malaysia SB, it seems it is under Axiata Group Berhad

so DNB ask Celcom to build tower but Celcom is not joining DNB yet...?

Parking

Ericsson sucks many incompatibility issues with China phone models. If you own Huawei, Oppo, Realme, Xiaomi, Redmi, Vivo and many other China brands you're going to get lots of non supported phones with their 5G network.

Huawei is the best 5G phone. They get strongest and stable 5G. From my previous experience on p40 pro.
I have 4 5G poco phones, one no 5G , cheap one weak 5G. Poco F3 and poco F4 gt work charm.

Is Mi 12/12T Pro a viable choice on using 5G?

I'm already at the latest firmware now, no 5G whatsoever
not even netmonster show 5G NSA disconnected, just 4G

Will wait for samsung to push updates onto S20 Ultra, and I still can't get over the fact that S20 FE have the same chipset as S20 Ultra and samsung wouldn't push modem update for S20 Ultra 

Since some Telco have 5G now. Wonder when my iPhone support 5G as well? Any insider news on it?

Totally no network at all with ZERO bars. If APN or settings incorrect the most you get is unable to access internet or go online. This one the network totally unavailable. No bars including a X on the signal icon.

I placed a active SIM without any unlimited subscription plan with just topped up value into the China branded imported phones. After not being able to detect any network I swap the same SIM back into a local warranty phone. Straight the network went back online with full bars.

Great news for S20U users, it's listed on DNB's website now.\

some new smartphone support band 28A 28B and missing band 28

eg phone  1
4G：B1|2|3|4|5|7|8|20|28A|28B|38|40|41(120M)

eg phone 2
FDD-LTE: Bands 1/3/5/8/20/28
TD-LTE: Bands 38/40/41（2496-2690MHz）

How come TRX mall no 5G.... and some more YTL whole mall no signal