Kuala Lumpur, March 21 2009- TM on Monday disclosed the indicative terms and conditions (ITC) for HSBB which is now made available to its potential wholesale customers.

The local daily also reported that some industry players were not happy with the briefing as most of the details are not new to them.

HSBB Transmission service will be offered to service providers that have high capacity and bandwidth requirements, and which require enhanced service level guarantees for their backhaul connections. A minimum of 20Mbps and up to 1Gbps bandwidth will be offered to service providers. The Transmission service will commence in Q2 2009.

HSBB Connection service enables interconnection between the HSBB network and the service provider’s network while the HSBB Access service will allow the service provider to offer bandwidth hungry IP-based services. Both Connection and Access is scheduled to be available in Q4 2009.

TM said that a dedicated programme management team has been established to manage and provide an end-to-end view of the whole programme.

“The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has given us guidelines for the wholesale pricing” said Ahmad Azhar Yahya, Programme Director, HSBB Project, TM in a media briefing.

“We will charge the Service Provider (Access Seekers) depending on their requirements for HSBB” he added without going into further details.

While details of the pricing will be different based on Service Provider and their requirements, TM Wholesale's executive vice president, Rafaai Samsi said that wholesale pricing will be made available in April but it will not be available for public.

Two fibre access pilot projects have been carried out in Subang Jaya and Taman Tun Dr Ismail, while the IP core deployment is still in progress and the first cutover is expected to be completed in Q2 2009.

The HSBB project costs a total RM11.3 billion. TM will be investing RM8.9 billion over a 10-year period, while the government will chip in RM2.4 billion. The project will offer speed between 10Mbps and 1Gbps to Internet users in the Klang Valley and Iskandar Malaysia in Johor state, while up to 4Mbps will be offered nationwide.