Malaysia continues to heavily promote itself as an Information Technology hub in the Asia region. While there had been a good response at a corporate level, for some time the wider community was not really embracing technology. In relative terms, there had been a surprisingly low interest in broadband internet. The national broadband penetration was around 8% of the population coming into 2011, according to a recent report by Research and Markets entitled "Malaysia: Broadband Market and Forecasts 2011."
This was despite the government having launched a National Broadband Plan which had targeted a 15% penetration by 2010. One bright spots has been WiFi, as the service providers start to roll out their hotspot' services. With the government issuing some WiMAX licences, a highly competitive wireless broadband market has been developing as the mobile operators increase the capability of their offerings. Another major push towards wider broadband adoption has been prompted by Telekom Malaysia's roll-out of its fibre-based High-Speed Broadband network. This report looks at the extent to which high-speed Internet access is developing in the country.
On the back of the broadband boom, and especially the high wireless broadband take up, the government was able to report in January 2011 that Malaysia's broadband penetration rate had reached 55.6% surpassing the national target of 50%.
For more information on this report, go to: http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9f40b1/malaysia_broadband_market_and_forecasts
