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16.07.2008« [telecommunications — телекоммуникация — telekommunikation]
malaysia — regulator wants longer prepaid validity
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has ruled that mobile operators must introduce pre-paid packages with longer validity periods. Currently, pre-paid services have a maximum validity period of 30 days, but following the ruling operators will have to adopt validity for 180 days. Operators have agreed to introduce new packages by the end of 2008. Maxis Mobile is the current leader in the Malaysian mobile market, with 41.45% market share at March 2008, ahead of rivals Celcom and DiGi Telecommunications.
Source: TeleGeography's CommsUpdate
celcom
Celcom (Malaysia) Berhad is the top provider of and prepaid wireless voice and data communications services in Malaysia. A subsidiary of the country's leading landline services provider Telekom Malaysia, it serves more than seven million consumers and businesses customers and provides international roaming network access in about 90 countries. CELCOM has product and marketing agreements with international mobile provider Vodafone, Internet search company Google, and Malaysia's biggest bank Maybank.
digi telecommunications
DiGi Telecommunications is a mobile phone service provider in Malaysia. The company is owned in majority by Telenor ASA of Norway with 61%. On 24 May 1995 DiGi became the first telco in Malaysia to launch and operate a fully digital cellular network. DiGi Telecommunications Sdn. Bhd. provides a variety of mobile communication services. These services include voice under their prepaid plans & postpaid plans, SMS, data plans and services, international roaming, international calling card and WAP services.
maxis
Maxis wants to provide the maximum in communications to customers across Southeast Asia. Maxis Communications Berhad provides the means (complete mobile and fixed-line telecommunications services as well as broadband and other Internet-related services) and the media (mobile phones and other telecom equipment) by which people can keep in touch. The company was founded in 1995 and first appeared on the Malaysian stock exchange in 2002. It went private again in June 2007 when Binariang GSM Sdn Bhd -- which is owned by Malaysian tycoon Ananda Krishnan -- bought Maxis for $4.5 billion.
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