TNB can enter broadband market, minister says

The government hopes that Tenaga Nasional Berhad will consider a proposal to venture into telecommunications as a broadband infrastructure provider, thus creating competition in the sector that will benefit consumers, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo said the ministry had held a meeting with the utility giant to discuss the role it could play.

β€œIn my opinion, TNB can use the existing infrastructure in terms of the fibre optic network already laid in the country,” he said.

He was replying to a supplementary question from Khairy Jamaluddin (BN-Rembau) who had wanted to know the stand of the ministry on TNB as a broadband provider competitor to break the monopoly of Telekom Malaysia (TM).

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