The new home of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia proved to be the perfect backdrop for TowerXchange Meetup Asia’s milestone 10th annual event in November 2023.
The country is going in a forward-thinking direction, voiced Malaysia’s Minister of Communications, Fahmi Fadzil during a special one-on-one interview with TowerXchange’s Product Director Matthew Edwards.
Over the years the country has overseen significant digital transformation, driven by 5G densification, the imminent strengthening of the country’s Data Protection Act that will have positively reverberating effects on Malaysia’s approach towards cybersecurity infrastructure, and investment from multinational hyperscale corporations.
The tower industry offers huge opportunity to tackle the massive challenges of both cutting-edge high speed connectivity in densely populated urban areas as well as the huge remaining rural infrastructure gap, said Fadzil.
He said this might represent a window of opportunity in the future where increased maturity of satellite-to-device technologies might be able to resolve. “As we all know, satellite phones are extremely cost prohibitive. However, there are some interesting ideas – satellites as towers would be quite interesting to look at, particularly to resolve some of the problems of connectivity,” Fadzil enthused....
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