Malaysia now has 9 telcos, that already alot of competitions, and you see all telco profit downhill continuously for 3-4 years so merger is imminent. Now all telco cant launch 5G and force by gov to feed DNB cash lot of money every year … sooner or later will go bankrupt …
We back to use fixed telephone line soon …

Digi needs to return all their spectrum to MCMC so all users will connect under Celcom spectrum resources only. Will congest to hell …

Already stated in the mcmc doc that they will need to return spectrums within 3 years. Mcmc will pro rate payback Digi for the spectrum they paid to Mcmc.

Question is who Mcmc will give the spectrum to?

Likely to some new no experience telco registered in SSM last week.

I think is the same eventually all Digi Celcom users will be under one network. Quality will drop, people will leave to competitors then cause all the service of all telco will somehow be lower …

That is the culture here.

The top 3 parasites in telco industry are Asiaspace, Altel and Redtone.

Asiaspace get spectrum for decade did nothing but to rent to other telcos for instant profit - if not mistaken to YES

Altel gets largest share of LTE spectrum, did nothing and rent to other telcos for instant profit - if not mistaken to Celcom

Redtone also the same - if not mistaken to Maxis

These 3 politicial linked company get spectrums for FREE then rent to others for profit. Big 6 telcos are financing them under MCMC watch. If in other countries, their spectrums would be collected back and sold to the more deserving telcos and likely price can drop further.

70 out of 105 Mhz need to be returned over 2-3 yrs which are all the primary 4G LTE bands used by Digi. Remaining are for 2G.

This post has been edited by p4n6: Jul 2 2022, 03:54 PM

LTE bands should be given to operators with LTE with existing infra to use it right away - UM, Maxis, Celcom=Digi (reevaluate).
DNB shall be only using their own spectrum now, giving them new spectrum means they will need more billion (on top of their current 12B commitment over 10 years) to deploy additional antenna and infra. It is not wise to spend to invest on LTE infra for DNB.