Evo: P1's Public Partnership Program Projects

Monday, March 8, 2010

P1's Public Partnership Program Projects

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P1 has established relationships with various local government and communities - sometimes even down to the local council level - to fast - track rollouts.

For example, Wireless@Sunway is a collection effort between Sunway Group and P1 to enable Bandar Sunwayy to become the first Integrated Wireless Township in Malaysia, benefiting its 30,000 residents and 2 millions visitors per year. Bandar Sunway residents has been primarily relying on DSL and cable modems for Internet connectivity. Wireless@Sunway now provides wireless broadband coverage to the flourishing 800-arce Bandar Sunway which includes Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall, Sunway Lagoon Theme Park, Monash University Sunway Campus, Sunway University College, Sunway Metro. and Sunway Mentari. The creation of Bandar Sunway integrated wireless community was a significant milestone in bringing internet power to the township community and making it an even greater place to live.

Moreover, in Kuala Lumpur, P1 developed Wireless@KL- a joint project among P1, the Kuala Lumpur City Hall(DBKL), and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission(MCMC)- aimed at making Kuala Lumpur a world-class wireless city by 2010. Aside from offering free broaband connectivity for citizen and visitors for two years upon its launch, the project hopes to help boost tourism, economic capabilities, and social and education opportunities so that the city can leapfrog the development and growth of information and Communication Technology(ICT) as a while. P1 was appointed as DBKL and MCMC infrastructure provider and has completed deploying 1,500 Wifi hospot using Wimax technology for the core network in selected areas within the Golden triangle, as well as in DBKL offices and community centers. P1 thus supports the goverment national broadband to progress Malaysia and make it a knowledge-based economy.

Yet a third project, Wireless@Pinang, is a state government initiative engaiing the Wimax- based P! wireless Internet services. P1's part of the project is actually name WiMax@Penang, subset of the larger initiative, to deliver Broadband Internet Connectivity to areas with high numbers of tourists, as well as densely-populated locations. making Penang one of the first cities in the world offering full Wimax connectivirty.