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MyConv01_cover.pdf 7/10/2007 4:57:34 PM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Contents Features 14 Mobile Number Portability Details of this upcoming project 28 Smart Antennas for Wireless Communication Systems An institution of higher learning is researching how to 07 make antennas perform better Cover Story The MyICMS 886 Strategy Malaysia’s drive forward in the delivery of advanced information, communications and multimedia services Personality Khoo Han Wei 17 24 iBurst D’House: Built Around This wireless technology is Human Relations given a field test Go on a tour of a state of the art office 36 46 50 NASMOC Rollout MyIX – Our Latest From Sea to Space MCMC tackles the issue Internet Hub Earthquakes could soon be of spectrum management and predicted by studying variations in the monitoring The nation’s Internet exchange earth’s upper atmosphere is up and running in record time Regulars 20 32 42 55 Building Bridges Personality Then & Now Happenings MCMC events and Universal Postal Khoo Han Wei From Cave Drawings Announcements Student turned IT Service entrepreneur to Fibre Optics Community Letter Boxes An introduction to the history of are improving postal services telecommunications in Malaysia for rural addresses 58 60 63 Kaleidoscope Notes From All Over Scoreboard Health, Food, Places & News from Regulators Communications and Multi- Productivity Around The World media, Postal and Courier A Selection of Statistics From the Chairman’s desk would like to congratulate the editorial board for a job well done. The process of conceptualizing and giving form and substance to a magazine such as the one that you hold in your hands now is not an easy one. Even the choice of an appropriate name befitting what readers will come to identify as the flagship magazine of the MCMC has proven to be challenging. But indeed .myConvergence fits the bill nicely reflecting the regulatory platform of the MCMC. IWithin these pages you will read contributions by practitioners and experts from the ranks of the MCMC, the industry and academia. Be that as it may, editorial policy has been one of trimming down on technicalities to render the articles as comprehensible to as wide a readership as possible. The magazine also sports a lighter side bringing you varied reading in kaleidoscopic fashion as well as informing you about goings-on locally and abroad in regulatory circles of the C&M industry. In more ways than one this is indeed a ‘knowledge magazine’ subliming the wealth of tacit knowledge in our sphere into explicit knowledge for the record. Once again to the editorial board and contributors, well done and keep up the good work! Datuk Dr. Halim bin Shafie Advisor Publisher DatukDr.HalimbinShafie MalaysianCommunicationsandMultimediaCommission Chairman, Off Persiaran Multimedia, 68000 Cyberjaya, Selangor Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Tel: +603 8688 8000 Fax: +603 8688 1000 Website: www.mcmc.gov.my In-houseConsultant Email: [email protected] Articlecontribution Toh Swee Hoe guidelines,editorial PublishingConsultant policystatement EditorialBoard One World Solutions Sdn. Bhd. andadownloadable Adelina Iskandar, Eneng Faridah Iskandar, Mohd Tel: +603 4142 0559 Fax:+603 4142 6009 electronicversionof Zaidi Abd Karim, Shamsul Jafni Shafie www.oneworld.com.my thispublicationcan Editor Printer beviewedatwww. Koay Hock Eng Percetakan Jiwabaru Sdn. Bhd. myconvergence.com.my PublicationManager Sharifah Haniza Syed Harun Copyright 2007 Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the publisher. All rights to brand names, registered trade marks, logos and images remain with their legal owners. Any commercial products and services featured in this publication shall not be construed as an endorsement by MCMC. The views and opinions of writers expressed in this publication may not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.. MyConv_p05_Consumer.pdf 7/10/2007 5:05:23 PM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Cover Story The MyICMS 886 Strategy THE MyICMS 886 STRATEGY Malaysia’s drive forward in the delivery of advanced information, communications and multimedia services. Nor Akmar Shah Minan shows how it is being done. 6 he mid and late nineties have The second phase of MSC (2003 to 2010) will been very significant years as extend the MSC to a wider community. It will see they were marked by major the roll out of MSC to other parts of the country strides by the country towards and enhancing local ICT industry. There will be developing the ICT sectors of an increase in usage and adoption of innovative industry. The launching of the Multimedia domestics ICT products and services. TSuper Corridor in 1996 and the implementation By end of Phase 3 in the year 2020, the MSC of the Communications and Multimedia Act Agenda will be extended to the whole country. 1998 or CMA in 1999 are the two most signif- Malaysia will become a Knowledge-based icant events to shape the communications and Economy and Society, as envisaged in the Vision multimedia industries. 2020. However the country may not have been seeing the full impact of all these initiatives as MyICMS886 they tend to be implemented separately and Malaysian Information and Communications in isolation. These programmes need to be Multimedia Services 886 or MyICMS 886 is a integrated into a cohesive and comprehensive strategy for communications and multimedia strategy so that they complement and synergize services that will help the government take with one another and with output targets. Malaysia through to the Vision 2020. To address this, Malaysia has to come up with While many people assume MyICMS 886 is a blueprint for the industry; a plan and strategy similar to the national IT strategies of certain for the delivery of advanced information, commu- other countries, MyICMS 886 has its own unique nications and multimedia services. This blue- story. print, MyICMS 886, presents a comprehensive By the end of 2004, five years after the strategy that addresses the core aspects of the MCMC was set up, Malaysia was still missing its industry and places into perspective the value strategic technology roadmap for information, chain in the delivery of advanced information, communications and multimedia services. communications and multimedia services. While the CMA recognized the convergence of telecommunications, broadcasting and TheLaunchofMSC computer technology and embodies the national Way back in 1996 the Multimedia Super Corridor objectives to develop the advanced information, was conceptualised and today more than 1200 communications and multimedia services for SMEs and MNCs have set up operations focused Malaysia, there really wasn’t a strategic blueprint on multimedia and communications products, that served as a guide to the industry. solutions, services and research and development. The first phase of MSC (1996 – 2003) has created several Flagship Applications: ■ Electronic Government ■ Multipurpose Card ■ Smart School ■ Telehealth ■ R&D Clusters ■ E-Business ■ Technopreneur Development 7 Cover Story The MyICMS 886 Strategy The CMA as a leading edge convergence law BenchmarkingSuccesses put the country on a solid path of development. In coming up with its national strategy, Malaysia Since the implementation of the regulatory is seeking to benchmark the success of other framework under this Act, the industry has countries in ICT such as Singapore, Korea and made significant progress. In the last five years Japan which have their own development plans the gross turnover of the communications and such as Korea IT839 , e-Japan and Singapore multimedia industry has doubled from RM12 IN2015. billion in 1999 to RM24 billion in 2004. With the IT839 strategy, Korea has estab- The communications and multimedia lished its image as a global IT powerhouse. The industry is very important for the development development of a series of innovative technol- of the country, not only because of the revenue ogies such as the wireless broadband Internet and investments it generates, but also because (WiBro) and multimedia broadcasting (DMB) it constitutes an important component in the has emerged as a key driving force of the Korean production process of other goods and services economy. and can define the competitiveness of the The Korean IT industry has clearly developed country. into a global industry with new services that The MCMC embarked on a “Technology create demand, establishment of infrastructure Roadmap Exercise” in early 2005 to come up that enables the provision of new services and with a roadmap on the information, communica- enhanced manufacturing capabilities. Korea’s tions and multimedia services. The exercise ran development strategy to adopt new IT services for three months from January 2005. Industry ahead of competitors and commercialize them players which comprised of licensees, systems preoccupied the IT service industry and turned supplier & manufacturer and R&D entities out to be very successful. presented their plans for services and products roll out for the period of 2006 to 2010. Korea'sIT839Strategy Several other aspects of the technology The Ministry of Information and Communication roadmap such as technologies issues were (MIC) of Korea drew up the IT839 Strategy highlighted and proposals for which set forth telecommunication services, strategic collaboration between infrastructure, equipment, software and content industries and regulator were put as the elements that comprise vertical and hori- MyICMS 886 forward. zontal value chains of the IT industry. leverages At the end of the exercise, an Under the value chain, the introduction outline of a Technology Roadmap of 8 new services will prompt investment into on existing for ICMS in Malaysia was drawn the building of 3 essential networks. And these up and was ready to be discussed networks will pave the way for the 9 new sectors policies and with the industry and public.

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