New experience:TM High Speed Broadband (HSBB) ambassador Nurzaitul Laila demostrating TM's high speed broadband service, Unifi,to members of the public during the launch at Dataran Merdeka.
KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Bhd
(TM) and the Government will invest RM1.8bil to implement the second phase of the High Speed Broadband Project (HSBB 2) spanning 10 years.
TM said in a statement on Thursday that under the HSBB 2, 95 additional exchanges will be HSBB ready providing access to 390,000 premises by 2017.
Besides extending additional access and core capacity covering state capitals and selected major towns, they will also invest RM1.6bil in the Sub-Urban Broadband Project (SUBB), which will also be rolled out over 10 years.
This involves upgrading existing copper lines to deliver high-speed broadband access speeds of up to 20Mbps - and up to 100Mbps in areas deployed with fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) technology - to over 420,000 premises by 2019.
TM said it had signed two public-private partnership (PPP) agreements with the Government to implement HSBB 2 and SUBB to deploy the access and domestic core networks to deliver an end-to-end broadband network infrastructure and services, as well as increasing coverage for the nation.
For HSBB 2, the Government will invest RM500mil and TM will fork out the remaining RM1.3bil.
As for SUBB, the Government will fund RM600mil and TM will spend RM1bil.
TM group chief executive officer Tan Sri Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa said the company was honoured to have been given the opportunity to prove itself as the Government’s trusted partner in national development time and again.
“The successful roll out of the first HSBB project has elevated the nation to emerge as the highest in terms of number of high speed broadband subscribers in South-East Asia and one of the most acknowledged fast track project roll-outs globally,” he said.
“HSBB is our engine of growth. It is as an enabler that fuels the development of local content and applications industry with many potential high bandwidth next-generation applications. HSBB also serves as the growth drivers for data services in the midst of globalisation and rapid adaptation of Internet Protocol (IP) technology.”
HSBB 2 will see the expansion of the previous HSBB infrastructure, covering other priority economic areas including state capitals, selected major towns, including passing industrial zones throughout the country, passing public universities, institutions of higher education (Institut Pengajian Tinggi Awam or IPTAs), private institutions of higher education (Institut Pengajian Tinggi Swasta or IPTS), matriculation colleges and other Government colleges.
The SUBB project, on the other hand, will cover sub-urban and rural areas, passing public universities, IPTAs, IPTS, matriculation colleges and other Government colleges.
TM will roll-out last mile access network for both HSBB 2 and SUBB projects to homes and businesses utilising FTTH, Ethernet-to-the-home (ETTH) and Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line 2 (VDSL2) technologies.
To date, TM had deployed UniFi to 103 TM exchange areas nationwide, covering 1.769 million premises.
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