PETALING JAYA: A PKR MP has demanded both the finance and communications and multimedia ministers to explain the impact of Digital Nasional Bhd’s (DNB) delayed 5G tower rollout.
Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzil questioned the potential repercussions of such a delay, asking, “What effect do these delays have, for example, on contracts signed by DNB? Will it have any effect on equity owners?”
In a statement, Fahmi pointed out that DNB’s rollout should have reached 4,500 towers by now but only about half of that sum was ready.
“This does not take into account the installation of fibre to the towers,” he added.
He also said at least two major telcos still did not trust the Single Wholesale Network (SWN), proposed by the finance and communications and multimedia ministries, through DNB.
He was citing a Reuters report, which quoted sources as saying that Maxis Bhd and U Mobile did not plan to take up stakes in a state-owned 5G agency.
The report detailed how two sources said that neither telco could see any benefit of being minority shareholders in DNB, but stated that both firms still wanted to negotiate access to DNB’s 5G network.
This comes in the wake of communications and multimedia minister Annuar Musa saying, on Saturday, that discussions with the six telcos taking stakes in DNB were progressing well and they were set to meet the deadline, with the six telcos signing the deals on Aug 31. - FMT
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