KUALA LUMPUR, June 2 — Malaysia will remain a free market for telecommunications companies in the rollout of its second 5G network, Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil told newswire Bloomberg in an interview published today.
He said Malaysian telcos are free to decide whether or not to work with Chinese equipment makers like Huawei Technologies Co despite security risk warnings from the European Union (EU) and the US.
“The government itself is not entering into any contractual obligations with any of these network equipment providers. It’s a commercial decision, and ‘the ones who need to be convinced are the telecommunication companies, the mobile network operators’,” he was quoted as saying.
He said that the government will take into consideration concerns voiced by some Western countries over Huawei’s possible participation in the network.
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