Small telcos are big winners

Small is beautiful: U-Mobile is among the small telco players gaining growth in terms subcriber base, according to Affin Hwang Capital.

PETALING JAYA: Smaller telcos appear to be absorbing the growth rate in Malaysian cellular subscriber base, with the big three telcos witnessing declines.

According to Affin Hwang Capital Research, most of the growth in subscribers had gone to the smaller telco players including U-Mobile, Telekom Malaysia (TM) and mobile virtual network operators.