Better Internet accessibility with the recent launching of "Wifi Salu­ran" (WS) fa­cil­ity at Kam­pung Sam­bir in Asa­jaya

We are looking forward for our kampung folks to have better Internet accessibility with the recent launching of the "Wifi Salu­ran" (WS) fa­cil­ity at Kam­pung Sam­bir in Asa­jaya on March 26 which will boost the broad­band ser­vice net­work for the vil­lagers once in full op­er­a­tion. We also thank Sarawak Mul­ti­me­dia Author­ity (SMA) for having ini­ti­ated the fa­cil­ity which will bring a host of benefits for our folks especially in rural areas.

I praised SMA for having pre­pared a telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions de­vel­op­ment plan for the Sam­bir area to en­able res­i­dents to en­joy qual­ity com­mu­ni­ca­tion ser­vices. Pre­vi­ously, I have dis­cussed with Telekom Malaysia and SMA to ex­pand the fi­bre op­tic net­work in Sa­ma­ra­han Di­vi­sion, es­pe­cially in our coastal ar­eas, in­clud­ing Asa­jaya District so that everyone can benefit from such development.

This ini­tia­tive is also aimed to solve the broad­band ser­vice net­work is­sue, es­pe­cially in the Sam­bir area and although many tow­ers had been built, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion ser­vice in the area is need of improvement be­cause there were no transmitting dishes.

To over­come such prob­lem, SMA had pro­vided the "Wifi Saluran" fa­cil­i­ties with the in­stal­la­tions in­volving 200 ar­eas in­clud­ing Kam­pung Sam­bir. The project also in­cluded the in­stal­la­tion of 200 Very-Small-Aper­ture Ter­mi­nals (VSAT) on the first 300 telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion tower projects in the state.

Thus, we are grate­ful to the state govern­ment for se ing the tar­get of full In­ter­net cov­er­age through­out Sarawak by 2025. So far, the govern­ment has built more than 170 telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion tow­ers out of the 300 tar­geted un­der the project. The state govern­ment has also ap­plied to the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Mul­ti­me­dia (MCMC) for a li­cence to en­able the state govern­ment to de­velop broad­band In­ter­net in cer­tain ar­eas.

We therefore thanked SMA for notic­ing the prob­lem faced by the lo­cal peo­ple, and the ex­pla­na­tion on the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion net­work in Sam­bir as well as the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion de­vel­op­ment plan in Sa­ma­ra­han Di­vi­sion. Big thanks to our Member of Parliament for Kota Sa­ma­ra­han, Puan Hajah Ru­biah Haji Wang and SMA's gen­eral man­ager, Dr Zaidi Razak for inviting me to grace the launching ceremony which was held at Kampung Sambir Community Hall.