YTL Communications
Will TD-LTE make a difference for YTL Comms?
A recent report by a local telco analyst got Edwin Yapp thinking if migrating to TD-LTE would give WiMax player YTL Communications an edge.
YTL Comms gets global award for 1BestariNet project
YTL Communications Sdn Bhd’s 1BestariNet project to connect 10,000 national schools across Malaysia with its YES 4G Internet service, integrated with the cloud-based Frog VLE (Virtual Learning Environment), won the Best Broadband Cloud Award at the 2013 Broadband InfoVision Awards ceremony held recently in Amsterdam.
As Michael Lai leaves, what next for P1?
If there is one thing you could say about Michael Lai of P1 is that he is as tenacious a telco executive as they come. But it would seem that he too had reached his limits.
Red Hat forges on, 44 straight quarters of revenue growth
Red Hat reports 44 consecutive quarters of revenue growth; driven by telco, govt and FSI sectors
Its open source solutions used in controversial 1BestariNet project; YTL exec stands by implementation
Will LTE rescue mobile operators?
With the advent of Long Term Evolution (LTE), mobile operators are gearing up for what many industry observers believe to be one of the most important inflection points in the wireless business since the industry went from analogue to digital. Edwin Yapp explores why.
Green Packet bets its future on LTE
Initially positioned as a disruptor to the incumbent telcos, while making a bet on the once highly touted WiMAX technology as its platform, Green Packet Bhd is now betting its future on the same technology platform as the rest of them -- LTE. And it is swallowing some bitter tablets, notes Karamjit Singh.
LTE is good to go, so now what?
The government, through industry regulator the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), has finally announced the allocation of the much-anticipated 2600 MHz (2.6GHz) spectrum band to eight operators for the deployment of Long Term Evolution wireless technology.
Budget 2013 smartphone rebate: A stupid thing to do
If you need further proof that even very smart people can do stupid things, look no further than the Budget 2013 proposal allocating RM300 million (US$98 million) for a RM200 (US$65) rebate for youths aged 21 to 30 to go towards the purchase of a 3G smartphone, writes DNA founder Karamjit Singh.
