The government is currently reviewing the 5G SWN rollout by Digital Nasional Bhd and is slated to make a final decision by the end of this month.
He further said on March 9 that the government would honour contracts signed for DNB’s 5G rollout, which suggests that the disbanding of DNB is unlikely. “If improved transparency and 5G DSS by altering the scope of DNB’s rollout leads to reduced 5G rollout cost, and correspondingly, lower wholesale fees, we believe it would help to boost the MNOs’ financial year 2023-2025 core earnings per share and more substantially over the long run,” the research house said in its latest report.
“Each 5G network should cost roughly the same as a cost-efficiently rolled out SWN but with traffic split two ways, cost per gigabyte would result in a muted response.