MCO: Students in Malaysia need to take charge of their data usage, say experts


Alina believes it's time that students learn how use their Internet data wisely during MCO. — ALINA AMIR

The need to conserve data is especially important as facilities such as Internet Centres, an initiative by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to make Internet available in under-served areas, have been shut down during MCO in some states.

“We have 20 desktop computers at the centre. When the centre was open, we used to get a lot of students coming in to do their homework or browse YouTube,” said a former manager at an Internet Centre in Selangor who only wanted to be known as Noraini.

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