Malaysia’s Maxis and Huawei Technologies Malaysia have sealed an agreement for the provisioning of the 5G service network in Malaysia. The signing ceremony that took place at the Perdana Leadership Foundation in Putrajaya today, was witnessed by Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad. This marks an important milestone for Maxis and it is a commitment to launch 5G in Malaysia together with its long-term network partner, Huawei.
As part of the agreement Huawei will be supplying 4G/LTE and 5G radio equipment and services to Maxis. Besides having access to 5G technologies, Maxis will be able to modernise its existing LTE network to be 5G ready. The local telco provider will also be able to facilitate the faster rollout of 5G services when the spectrum is available.
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The telco also added that Maxis will also gain access to insights, standards, products and solutions that would make 5G easier to deploy and operate and to introduce new use cases in Malaysia. Huawei will be putting together a team of experts to support Maxis on a series of technical training programmes for the 5G network.
According to Huawei, they have been working together with Maxis over 10 years and have supported the telco to become the undisputed network leader in the country. Maxis is the first telco to bring 4G to the market and they have continued to invest significantly in this area to maintain its 4G leadership in terms of speed, performance and experience.
In February, Maxis and Huawei had signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on full-fledged 5G trials. Maxis then started its first 5G live trials in the country and participated in the MCMC #5GMalaysia showcase in Putrajaya. If all goes according to plan, the commercial 5G spectrum will be ready in the second half of 2020.
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