OVERVIEW OF TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR
As in most countries, communication services in Malaysia have been traditionally provided on a monopolist basis. Several policy initiatives have been undertaken to foster competition in the country include those that are relevant to the determination of boundaries between competitive and monopolistic markets, licensing of new entries, monitoring performances and several practices related to maintaining sustainable competition in the market. Competition has gradually been introduced in many sector areas including the local loop, wireless, international and value-added segments.
The key to this development trend is to enhance liberalisation efforts that have taken by the government to allow private participation in the sector. Currently there are 6 licensed telecommunication companies which provide telephony services; Telekom Malaysia (fixed & cellular), Celcom (fixed & cellular), Maxis Communication (fixed & cellular), TIMECel (fixed & cellular), Digi (fixed & cellular) and Mobikom (cellular).
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