Rural Broadband

The Rural Broadband (RBB) initiative was first awarded in 2014. Its implementation started in the year 2015 and the objective of the project was to increase national penetration rate by providing high-speed fixed broadband services at rural and suburban Universal Service Target (UST) areas nationwide.

The RBB initiative was fully funded by the Universal Service Provision Fund (USP Fund) with the designated service provider being Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM). It involved upgrading the network infrastructure and fixed broadband services at 312 selected exchanges, at 119 districts and 243 mukim nationwide.

The RBB project was concluded in March 2020 with a total of 146,280 ports being completed nationwide. The table below shows the distribution of ports by state and Federal Territory.