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that (again) might very well constitute examples for other operators in the region, albeit very different ones. Privately owned Telekom Malaysia has been
actively deploying and selling a partly state- subsidised FTTP network to serve both residential and business customers. Although it seemed at the onset that Telekom Malaysia would need to provide open access in exchange for the subsidy, and although the operator does have wholesale service provider customers using its fibre access platform, it can’t quite be considered open since there is no price transparency and no equivalence in pricing between wholesale customers. Still, the program is a significant success with more than 700 000 customers on fibre in just a few short years. Te main challenge for Malaysia is now for businesses to embrace the broadband platform and for customers to perceive the value of better broadband (most speeds purchased are rather low).
Telekom Indonesia has been following a rather
more radical path of copper to fibre substitution that is – as far as I can tell – a world first, at least on that scale. As of last year, more than two million copper lines had been switched to fibre, with customers migrated at the same price on the services they currently have, but with much greater upsell opportunities of course. Furthermore, Telekom Indonesia has been profitably pulling out the copper and selling it on the hungry raw materials markets. Teir ambition is to expand to at least 11 million lines in this fashion. By then the question of further expanding into areas where copper was not deployed in the first place will be raised. It’s a very interesting model though, and one that could be a good example for other emerging markets. In a number of developed economies in
Asia-Pacific, the approach to fibre development could not follow these state-driven models as privatisation and some amount of competition
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