A mobile telephone is first introduced by John F. Mitchell and Dr. Martin Cooper from Motorola in 1973. In , it was first introduced by in 1985.

ICT Use by Individuals

Percentage of individuals used mobile phones NEGERI JOHOR SEMBILAN PERLIS SARAWAK URBAN : 95.2 URBAN : 96.4 URBAN : 94.3 URBAN : 96.5 RURAL : 89.9 RURAL : 90.1 RURAL : 91.3 RURAL : 89.9

KEDAH PAHANG SELANGOR KUALA LUMPUR URBAN : 95.0 URBAN : 96.4 URBAN : 97.2 URBAN : 98.8 RURAL : 91.1 RURAL : 91.8 RURAL : 94.4 RURAL : -

TERENGGANU KELANTAN PULAU PINANG LABUAN URBAN : 94.6 URBAN : 91.3 URBAN : 93.7 URBAN : 96.0 RURAL : 93.2 RURAL : 89.7 RURAL : 90.7 RURAL : 94.9

MELAKA PERAK SABAH PUTRAJAYA URBAN : 93.2 URBAN : 89.1 URBAN : 97.5 URBAN : 99.7 RURAL : 85.4 RURAL : 85.4 RURAL : 94.6 RURAL : - W.P Putrajaya 97.6

Selangor 73.0

W.P Kuala Lumpur 72.1

W.P Labuan 66.4

Melaka 63.9

56.0% of Pulau Pinang 56.1

individuals Pahang 55.6 use N. Sembilan 54.0 COMPUTERS in Malaysia Johor 53.8 Terengganu 51.5

Perlis 50.1

A computer refers to desktop, Sabah 46.5 laptop and tablet. It does not Sarawak 45.9 include equipment with some embedded computing capability Kedah 45.4 such as mobile telephone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) or Perak 44.3 a TV set Kelantan 43.7 ( )) 0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0 100.0 Percentage of individuals using the computer by state Percentage of Individuals using the Internet in Malaysia

W.P Putrajaya 98.8 Selangor 75.9

W.P Kuala… 74.0 W.P Labuan 66.2 Melaka 63.0 Pulau Pinang 59.0 Johor 56.7 N.Sembilan 55.1 Pahang 55.0 Perlis 54.0 Terengganu 48.6 Perak 46.0 Sabah 45.8 INTERESTING FACTS Kedah 45.0 Sarawak 44.8 “4,737 Wireless village (KTW) and 433 1Malaysia Internet Centre (PP1M) were 44.0 Kelantan established nationwide as at June 2014” 0.0 20.0 40.0 Source : Malaysian 60.0 80.0 Communications and Multimedia 100.0 Percentage Commission (MCMC) 60.3% of individuals in Malaysia used Internet at least once a day

2.8% 6.7% At least once a day

At least once a week but not every day 30.2% At least once a month but 60.3% not every week Less than once a month

2.8% of individuals used Internet less than once a month 5 Most Common Places for Internet Usage

% 100 90 80 71.2 70 55.3 60 50 37.8 40 26.0 30 22.4 20 10 0 Home Any place via a Work place Commercial Any place via mobile phone other mobile facility access devices

MALAYSIA TOP 5 INTERNET ACTIVITIES IN MALAYSIA

ACTIVITIES RANK PERCENTAGE

Posting information or instant messaging 1 69.1

Sending or receiving email 2 65.4

Getting information about goods and services 3 65.3

Downloading movies, images, music, watching TV or video, or 64.6 listening to radio or music 4

Reading or downloading online newspaper or magazines, 52.1 electronic books 5 Online shopping by product category, per cent of all buyers

%

Clothes, bag, shoes 50.4

Food and beverages 49.7

Travel products 35.4

Accomodation services 28.7

Accessories 27.9 Reasons for not purchasing or ordering goods or services over the Internet…..

Types of Household Internet Narrowband Connections

4.4% There are two types of Internet Access Services, which are Narrowband and Broadband. Broadband is highly used by households in Malaysia.

The most common types of broadband connections were: 95.6% (used by 50.0% of households with broadband); DSL (48.2%); and 1.8% other fixed broadband (1.8%). 48.2% Mobile broadband

Digital Subscriber 50.0% Line Fixed broadband Language barrier 2.7 3.8 6.5

3.8 Time constraints 4.1 4.8 Internet access by Malaysian households is increasing, Not interested however 41.4% of Malaysian 17.2 13.2 26.3 households still do not have Internet access at home.

Lack of confidence or skills 19.0 13.6 31.1 The five main reasons for not having access to the Internet were high cost, lack of confidence or skills, not Costs are too high 24.1 17.6 38.7 interested, time constraint and language barrier.

Percent

Malaysia Urban Rural 96.2% 92.1% Mobile Phone

57.3% 54.5% Computer

58.6% 55.4% Internet 61.9%

58.9%

F M E A M L M A E L A E L E 70.1 68.2 66.4 65.3 65.6 64.3 64.5 64.6

51.2 53.0

messaging

email

books

instsant

goods and goods services

online online newspaper or

magazines, electronic

Posting Posting Information or

listening to radio or music or radio to listening

Sending Sending or receiving

Reading Reading or downloading

Downloading movies, images, movies, Downloading

music, watching TV or video, or or video, or TV watching music, Getting information information Getting about

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