The WiFi facility will make it possible for 80 per cent of the federal capital’s 1.5 million residents to access the internet via broadband, he added.
“This project is aimed at increasing broadband coverage in the Klang Valley to 90 percent of the population by 2010,” he told reporters here after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the KL Wireless Metropolitan project.
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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said this would be done in stages, with more areas to be accorded MSC cybercity and cybercentre status upon meeting the necessary conditions.
This had been decided, Abdullah said, on the basis of the success of the MSC programme, now into its 11th year of rapid progress in achieving its targets.
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This operation was used to showcase telesurgery technology and to demonstrate the potential of a high-speed network used for cross border co-operation in telemedicine.
Dinesh Nair, chief executive officer of QubeConnect Sdn Bhd, said the Government should focus on improving the coverage of broadband in the country instead of speedier Internet connections, at least in the beginning.
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The project, which covers three cities and an administrative centre – Kuala Lumpur, Shah Alam, Petaling Jaya and Putrajaya – will stretch from Hulu Langat area in the north down to Nilai in Negri Sembilan.
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