Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) has signed two PPP agreements with the government, which will see it bear the bulk of financing the roll-out of the high speed broadband Phase 2 (HSBB 2) and the suburban broadband project (SUBB). The total cost of the HSBB 2 investment for a period of 10 years is RM 1.8 billion, of which the government will be investing RM 500 million and the remaining RM 1.3 billion will be invested by TM. The total cost of the SUBB investment for a period of 10 years is RM 1.6 billion with the government investing RM 600 million and TM investing RM 1 billion. The 10-year HSBB 2 project encompasses the deployment of additional access and core capacity covering state capitals and selected major towns throughout the country. It includes planning, designing, implementation, operation, and maintenance of the HSBB network infrastructure and services. Under the project, 95 additional exchanges will be HSBB-ready providing access to 390,000 premises by 2017. The SUBB infrastructure will also be rolled out over a period of 10 years, involving the upgrading of existing copper lines to deliver high speed broadband access speeds of up to 20 Mbps and up to 100 Mbps in areas deployed with fibre-to-the-home technology, to over 420,000 premises by 2019.
