TM Expects Increase In Subscribers For Cloud Services

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KUALA LUMPUR, April 6,2012- Telekom Malaysia (TM) Bhd expects its customers for cloud services using Microsoft Office 365 software to increase this year.

Group Chief Executive Officer Datuk Seri Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa said the company currently has 20 customers comprising 2,000 users who are on trial for that service.

"Although they are currently on trial, we expect to convert them to permanent customers in the future and we foresee the number of customers to increase," he told reporters after the launch of TM Career and Education fair by the Deputy Minister of Higher Education Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah here today.

TM hoped those customers on trial will take up the service once the trial period has expired while it continued to look for potential customers.

"We believed the cloud service will be like the high-speed broadband service, UniFi, where for the first six months we only recorded 33,000 customers but after two years down the road, our customers have increased to over 300,000 at present," he said.

However, Zamzamzairani said following the introduction of the cloud service, the company planned to develop more Information Communication Technology (ICT) services for the small and medium entreprises.

"For a start, we have signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft for the Office 365 software to expand our cloud services offering by including it as part of TM's software services," he said, adding TM is also looking at other companies to enhance its cloud service.

On the development of UniFi service in other states, Zamzamzairani said TM will continue to expand coverage and is targeting to record 400,000 subscribers by year-end.

"UniFi is now enjoying a take-up rate of over 20 per cent of the premises passed, surpassing our initial estimates and expectations of eight to 10 per cent," he added.

The service is currently available at 81 exchange areas covering some 1.2 million premises. The areas are 64 in the Klang Valley, two in Penang, three in Kedah, nine in Johor and one each in Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Perak.

Source- BERNAMA