Free Wi-Fi for Malaysian island proposed

 
BY Pia Rufino , 10 June 2011


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• Parliament Member Datuk Yussof Mahal has proposed to bring wireless-Internet to the entire Labuan, an island off Sabah’s coast in Malaysia.
• Yussof said the government will focus on setting up free Wi-Fi zones at all mosques in Labuan within two years. Layang-Layangan is the first mosque to have the Wi-Fi coverage.
• “The cost to set up the free Wi-Fi zone for the whole of Labuan island is not that big considering that the island is small (75 square kilometres) and I hope this matter would be considered,” he said.
• Yussof is yet to bring the proposal up to the Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture in Parliament. The free Wi-Fi to the whole island, if approved, might be carried out gradually starting from Labuan town, he added.
• “This year, we have identified two villages—Kg Lajau and Kg Layang-Layangan—to have free Wi-Fi access,” he said after giving away 450 1Malaysia notebooks to students at the Labuan Corporation Multi-Purpose Hall.
• He also said the government will deploy 1,000 additional laptops as part of 1Malaysia programme.
• Meanwhile, one of the student beneficiaries, Muhd Faiq Jamal, said he was happy and determined to work hard in his studies after receiving a laptop.
• “It is like a dream come true for me to receive the laptop as I used to do my school assignments at cyber cafes and at the library before,” he expressed.