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One Million Laptop Computers For Poor Students

One million laptop computers will be given out free to poor students of secondary schools nationwide soon in an effort to increase broadband penetration in the country.

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Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) chairman Tan Sri Khalid Ramli said the government targeted 50 per cent Internet use by the year end.

“At the moment, the country has achieved 36 per cent broadband penetration,” he said after attending the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day celebration in the Tersang 3 Felda scheme, near here, Sunday, officiated by Pahang Information, Science, Technology and Innovation Committee chairman Datuk Mohd Sharkar Shamsudin.

Khalid said as for Pahang, the broadband penetration so far was 19 per cent compared to the 32 per cent targeted.

He said as telecommunication development was vital for any country’s development, various programmes such as the Broadband Carnival in Tersang 3 Felda had been organised by the government to expose rural people to the benefits of the Internet and communication information technology.

“We are aware that some rural and remote areas have no broadband coverage, and that is why we have set up community broadband centres which provide Internet facility to the local communities.”

Khalid said in Pahang alone, 37 such centres had been established with 8,000 people having registered with these centres.

The MCMC will also build 1,000 more telecommunication towers in the country including 207 in Pahang to expand services.

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