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Thursday August 20, 2009

Telekom Malaysia to lure more SMEs


It hopes more will use ICT solutions to widen market outreach

KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) hopes to lure more small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to utilise information and communications technology (ICT) solutions as tools in reaching out to the market.

TM SME executive vice-president Shanti Jusnita Johari said this outreach to the SMEs was ongoing with platforms such as mybizpoint.com, which allows companies to conduct trade matching automatically.

“The penetration rate in terms of broadband utilisation is between 20% and 30%. It also depends on the type of business,” Shanti told reporters yesterday after the signing of a collaboration agreement between TM and F&N Holdings Bhd’s properties division for the setting up of ICT infrastructure at the latter’s second phase of Fraser Business Park.

TM currently has more than 400,000 SME customers.

Shanti Jusnita Johari (2nd from left) exchanging documents with Cheah Hong Chong. With them are TM SME general manager Mohamad Yusman Ammeran (left) and F&N group company secretarial manager Gan Mee Ling

Meanwhile, F&N Holdings properties division general manager Cheah Hong Chong said the collaboration with TM would enable tenants and residents of the business park to have access to state-of-the-art ICT facilities, including telephony, data and broadband connection, with the latest fibre-to-the-office broadband connectivity infrastructure.

“We hope that TM will use the Fraser Business Park as a launch pad for other ICT solutions,” he said, adding that this was in line with the company’s vision of making the development the first purpose-built ICT and multimedia business centre in the city.

Cheah said the first phase of the business park was completed and handed over in 2007 with 85% of the 80 units of five- and six-storey shop-offices occupied while all the serviced apartments had been sold.

The second phase, known as Zon.e @ Fraser Business Park, offers e-centric retail, e-gaming and entertainment, multimedia, e-business, education, student hostel and hotel facilities.


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