KUALA LUMPUR: Opcom Holdings Bhd
has entered right into a three way partnership with World Forway Sdn Bhd to mix their capabilities in bidding for jobs within the 5G sector.
It mentioned in a Friday assertion that the collaboration will probably be formalised by means of a newly included firm, Opcom Imaginative and prescient Sdn Bhd, by which Opco will maintain a 60% fairness curiosity and World Forway, the remaining 40%.
Opcom mentioned it’s at the moment the biggest producer of fibre optic cables in Malaysia with a 27-year observe file in supplying fibre optic cables to the Malaysian telecommunications business.
The group additionally supplies associated engineering providers and holds a G7 certificates from CIDB.
World Forway in the meantime holds community services supplier (NFP), community service supplier (NSP) and utility service supplier (ASP) licences from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Fee in addition to a G7 certificates from CIDB.
“The federal government has clearly demonstrated its focus in direction of getting ready Malaysia to be a high-technology based mostly economic system by means of numerous initiatives and insurance policies equivalent to these set out within the twelfth Malaysia Plan, the Malaysia Digital Financial system Blueprint in addition to Jendela.
“This push towards digitalisation nevertheless would require enhancing the nation’s 4G protection and accelerating the roll-out of 5G. On this respect, we see numerous alternatives for us to contribute towards the federal government’s digital aspirations for the nation,” mentioned Opcom chairman Datuk Mazlin Junid.
He added that the collaboration will mix the capabilities of Opcom and World Forway to supply complete options encompassing the netire spectrum from the provision of fiber optic cables and set up of infrastructure and upkeep to designing software program functions.
World Forway group chairman Datuk Sri Vincent Gey added that Opcom’s expertise in manufacturing and set up of fibre optic cables coupled with its licences and capabilities in community providers places it in an enviable place to bid for contracts of various scopes underneath Jendela and the roll out of 5G.
