By Chong Pooi KoonPublished: 2009/09/12
MAXIS Communications Bhd, the country's biggest mobile operator, is on track to spend RM1.6 billion this year to upgrade its network in preparation for the surge in data usage.
"We are upgrading the network in a big way to accommodate the big take-up in data-centric type of devices. We are also pushing the mobile broadband and we need that to cater to our needs," Maxis head of enterprise and carrier business Mohamed Fitri Abdullah told reporters in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
Fitri declined to reveal any details on the much-anticipated potential relisting of Maxis on the local bourse, except to reiterate that the company is "seriously considering" Prime Minister's call to float the company's shares. Maxis will make announcement on the matter in due time, Fitri said.
Datuk Seri Najib Razak told the media in July that he had suggested for Maxis to be relisted to help attract investors to the local stock exchange.
Meanwhile, Maxis yesterday sealed a partnership deal with private school Cempaka Schools in Kuala Lumpur to use iPhone 3GS as a tool for the so-called "education on the go". Maxis is the only telecommunication firm with the rights to distribute iPhone in Malaysia.
About 100 units of the phone will be available to students of a new boarding school for girls under the Cempaka Schools group. Students will pay for the phone which is included in their fees. The school, which has adopted computers in its teaching and learning as early as 26 years ago, is already fully using Apple Macbook laptop as part of its virtual learning environment programme.
Fitri said this is Maxis first partnership in education and although other schools have shown interest in similar tie-ups, it may take a while for those plans to firm up.
Maxis' head of consumer marketing Tan Lay Han said Malaysians' hot response to the latest version of iPhone has proved that it is a "real worldwide phenomena".
The phone was sold out after the second day of its launch in Malaysia, Tan said, and there is a one-month waiting list for customers now.
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