KUALA LUMPUR: The country’s digital network has been redesigned to cater to new demands from Internet and mobile data users during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period, said the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
Its chairman, Dr Fadhlullah Suhaimi Abdul Malek, said to-date, the network has been stabilised since the majority of people are working from home and students are participating in home-based learning sessions.
"We did a survey for roughly about two months after MCO 1.0 started in March 2020, and it showed an increase in Internet traffic by more than 30 per cent.
"Hence that resulted in MCMC coordinating the National Digital Infrastructure Lab that finally gave birth to the (RM21 billion) National Digital Infrastructure Plan (Jendela) in August last year," he told Bernama after appearing on Bernama TV's The Nation programme, which was aired today on the topic of "Home-based Teaching and Learning (PDPR): The Way Forward”.
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