Faster, cheaper Internet access in the pipeline


  • Nation
  • Monday, 15 Aug 2016

Datuk Jailani Johari (second left) at the launching of the submarine fiber optic cable in Tanjung Aru..

KOTA KINABALU: Faster and cheaper Internet access services are in the offing once a multimillion submarine fiber optic cable linking the peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak is completed next year.  

Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Jailani Johari (pix) said the completion of the 1Malaysia submarine cable system would boost bandwidth capacity between the peninsula, and the two states, to four Terabytes per second.  

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