DIGI NOT AWARDED 3G - SHAME ON YOU MCMC
If a mobile service provider, an unproven pay-TV service and a loss-making broadband service provider all applied for a 3G license, who would you think would secure it without any problem? If you said, ‘The mobile service provider, of course!’ then you most definitely are not an inhabitant of Planet Boleh-hood.In a shocking announcement yesterday, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) announced that both MiTV (unproven pay-TV service)and TTdotcom (loss-making broadband provider) were both awarded with 3G licenses whereas Digi, the country’s 3rd largest mobile phone service provider walked away empty-handed.
The official stand was that “the two winners had to work “with DiGi and other service providers as a MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) to achieve a win-win situation’’ – Barisan-speak for "Bail out my loss-making cronies."
This is another sad day for Malaysian business. If I were Telenor (major foreign shareholder in Digi), I’d sell my stake in Digi for RM1 and leave this country for safer markets like Afghanistan or Iraq.
Lim Kit Siang, Aisehman & of course Jeff Ooi blog about this outrageous development as well.
Technorati: Malaysia, cronyism, 3G, Digi
posted by hew @ 1:04 pm
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