24-hour free 1GB data will have no impact on telcos


Goh said fibre broadband providers such as Telekom Malaysia’s unifi and Time dotcom, which mostly do not impose data restrictions, could marginally benefit from the increased backhaul services for telcos catering to these selected websites and applications.

KUALA LUMPUR: The extension of the free one gigabyte (GB) Internet access by telecommunication companies (telcos) to 24 hours from a restricted period of 8am to 6pm will not have any substantive impact to the sector’s average revenue per user (ARPU) or operational costs, an analyst said.

AmInvestment Bank Research analyst Alex Goh said this is simply as an extension of the free 1GB Internet access that telcos have already been offering to their subscribers since April 1, during the movement control order, until June 9.

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