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Malaysia plans nine 4G licences
17 September 2010
Malaysia is to offer four LTE licences, four WiMax licences and one further licence in its 4G spectrum plans
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The Malaysian government is planning to offer nine blocks of spectrum for 4G, including LTE and WiMAx, to nine wireless players. Each company is expected to get a 20 megahertz block of the 2.5 gigahertz and 2.6 gigahertz bands, which comprise the 70 and 120 megahertz blocks respectively, or totalling 190 megahertz.
Four cellular and four WiMax providers will each get a 20 megahertz block of 4G spectrum and a ninth company, linked to billionaire Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukary, will also get spectrum.
The mobile providers expected to be awarded with spectrum are Celcom Axiata, DiGi.Com, Maxis, and U Mobile, while the four Wimax players include Asiaspace, Packet One Networks, Redtone International and YTL Communications.
Celcom has started trials of LTE network kit supplied by both Huawei and Ericsson, while Maxis carried out trials with kit supplied by Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei. GTB