Digi Usher in CNY with 4G in Rural Areas

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Digi Usher in CNY with 4G in Rural Areas

Digi's Head of Northern Region, Siew Chee Kong (middle) flanked by Thew Soon Kheng (left), Digi's Area Manager for the Northern region and Beh Theam Hui, Digi's Head of Northern Region Rollout during a recent media event in Lunas, Kedah. — Digi’s Head of Northern Region, Siew Chee Kong (middle) flanked by Thew Soon Kheng (left), Digi’s Area Manager for the Northern region and Beh Theam Hui, Digi’s Head of Northern Region Rollout during a recent media event in Lunas, Kedah.

Digi Telecommunications today announced that it has begin to roll-out high speed 4G to rural areas such as, Lunas, Batu Gajah, Jejawi and Arau, apart of its #DigiWeWant4G campaign.

According to Digi’s Head of Northern Region, Siew Chee Kong: “Following up from our 4G LTE rollout in Setia Alam in the Klang Valley, we are now happy to announce that we’ve completed the rollout in the four towns up north where Malaysians have tweeted their desire for Digi’s 4G LTE coverage in their areas. As of this week, we have deployed and switched on our 4G LTE infrastructure to serve customers in Lunas, Batu Gajah, Jejawi and Arau. In total for the northern region, we now have 64% population coverage of our high speed 4G LTE network serving customers in 34 cities, districts and towns.”

In addition they are also working on a new 4G LTE, Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) to ensure the internet speeds are more stable, reliable and compatible. VoLTE is said to increase quality of audios, faster call connections and simultaneous use of data.

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