Konsortium Rangkaian Serantau Sdn Bhd

• Konsortium Rangkaian Serantau Sdn Bhd (KRS) is a consortium comprising 24 telecommunications companies with the objectives of lowering the wholesale cost of international and domestic bandwidth capacity in order to (a) reduce the price of broadband and (b) improve the service quality of internet access to end customers.

• Investment

  RM240,000

The consortium is expected to add at least threeTerabytes per second (3 Tbps) of international bandwidth capacity by 2020.

The reduction of IP transit cost is part of the "Extend the Regional Reach" initiative under the Economic Transformation Programme. IP transit cost represents the cost service providers pay to carry Internet traffic around the world but because many sites are hosted in the United States, traffic volumes to the US are high.

Formation of the consortium is a key milestone for the Extending Regional Networks project. A two stage approach is set by the consortium in its move to provide capacity at the lowest cost to members. The first stage is to buy bandwidth capacity from existing bandwidth capacity suppliers in bulk and passing the savings back to the consortium members whilst the next stage is to build submarine cable systems for the members of the consortium.

The consortium company will have an initial paid-up share capital of RM1,200,000 comprising 1,200,000 ordinary shares of RM1 each. All members of the consortium will have equal shares at the start-up of the consortium. In order to be eligible as a member of the consortium, members would have to posses valid Network Facilities Provider (NFP) and Network Service Provider (NSP) licenses issued by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). The consortium is also open to other eligible licensees in the future.

The initial members of the consortium are:

1. Optical Communication Engineering Sdn Bhd
2. Fiberail Sdn Bhd
3. Numix Engineering Sdn Bhd
4. Jaring Communications Sdn Bhd
5. DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd
6. TM Berhad
7. TTdotCom Sdn Bhd
8. Packet One Networks (M) Sdn Bhd
9. Celcom Axiata Berhad
10. Wellcom Communications (M) Sdn Bhd
11. SEDCO Communications Sdn Bhd
12. YTL Communications Sdn Bhd
13. Global Transit Communications Sdn Bhd
14. SACOFA Sdn Bhd
15. Extreme Broadband Sdn
16. Teliti Computers Sdn Bhd
17. U-Mobile Sdn Bhd
18. MAXIS Berhad
19. MYKRIS ASIA SDN BHD
20. REDtone Marketing Sdn Bhd
21. Sarawak Information Systems Sdn Bhd
22. Macro Lynx Sdn Bhd
23. Fibrecomm Network (M) Sdn Bhd
24. V Telecoms Berhad